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Street scenes : staging the self in immigrant New York, 1880-1924 / / Esther Romeyn



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Autore: Romeyn Esther Visualizza persona
Titolo: Street scenes : staging the self in immigrant New York, 1880-1924 / / Esther Romeyn Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c2008
Edizione: 1st ed.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (308 p.)
Disciplina: 305.8009747/10903
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Soggetto topico: City and town life - New York (State) - New York - History
Ethnicity - New York (State) - New York - History
Immigrants - New York (State) - New York - Intellectual life
Immigrants - New York (State) - New York - Social conditions
Minorities - New York (State) - New York - Intellectual life
Minorities - New York (State) - New York - Social conditions
Performing arts - Social aspects - New York (State) - New York - History
Self - New York (State) - New York - History
Soggetto geografico: New York (N.Y.) Ethnic relations
New York (N.Y.) Intellectual life
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 213-261) and index.
Nota di contenuto: pt. 1. The city as theater : performativity and urban space -- The epistemology of the city -- Detecting, acting, and the hierarchy of the social body -- Crossing the Bowery : female slumming and the theater of urban space -- Eros and Americanization : the rise of David Levinsky, or the etiquette of race and sex -- pt. 2. Stages of identity : performing ethnic subjects -- Juggling identities : the case of an Italian American clown -- My other/my self : impersonation and the rehearsal of otherness -- The truth of racial signs : civilizing the Jewish comic -- Blackface, Jewface, whiteface : racial impersonation revisited.
Sommario/riassunto: The turn of the twentieth century in New York City was characterized by radical transformation as the advent of consumer capitalism confronted established social hierarchies, culture, and conceptions of selfhood. The popular stage existed in a symbiotic relationship with the city and uniquely captured the contested terms of immigrant identity of the time. Street Scenes focuses on the intersection of modern city life and stage performance. From street life and slumming to vaudeville and early cinema, to Yiddish theater and blackface comedy, Esther Romeyn discloses racial comedy, passing, and ma
Titolo autorizzato: Street scenes  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-8166-6626-1
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910821377003321
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