Performing Race and Erasure : Cuba, Haiti, and US Culture, 1898–1940 / / by Shannon Rose Riley

• Autore: Riley Shannon Rose
• Pubblicazione: London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2016
• Edizione: 1st ed. 2016.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (XIII, 273 p. 6 illus.)
• Disciplina: 792.09
• Soggetto topico: Theater—History; Theatre History
• Soggetto geografico: United States Race relations Political aspects; Cuba Race relations Political aspects; Haiti Race relations Political aspects; United States Foreign relations Cuba History; United States Foreign relations Haiti History; Cuba Foreign relations United States History; Haiti Foreign relations United States History; Cuba; Haiti; United States
• Soggetto genere / forma: History
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Chapter 1. Cuba, Haiti, & the US -- Chapter 2. Imperial Scripts and Vaudeville Skits -- Chapter 3. Patriotic Performance Culture and Whiteness -- Chapter 4. Re-Racing the Nation -- Chapter 5. Military Occupation in Haiti -- Chapter 6. Staging the Haitian Revolution -- Chapter 7. Biracial Palimpsests -- Chapter 8.Palimpsest-Postscript -- Bibliography. .
• Sommario/riassunto: In this book, Shannon Rose Riley provides a critically rich investigation of representations of Cuba and Haiti in US culture in order to analyze their significance not only to the emergence of empire but especially to the reconfiguration of US racial structures along increasingly biracial lines. Based on impressive research and with extensive analysis of various textual and performance forms including a largely unique set of skits, plays, songs, cultural performances and other popular amusements, Riley shows that Cuba and Haiti were particularly meaningful to the ways that people in the US re-imagined themselves as black or white and that racial positions were renegotiated through what she calls acts of palimpsest: marking and unmarking, racing and erasing difference. Riley’s book demands a reassessment of the importance of the occupations of Cuba and Haiti to US culture, challenging conventional understandings of performance, empire, and race at the turn of the twentieth century.
• Titolo autorizzato: Performing Race and Erasure
• ISBN: 1-137-59211-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910255257003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History