The showman and the slave [[electronic resource] ] : race, death, and memory in Barnum's America / / Benjamin Reiss
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Reiss Benjamin
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The showman and the slave [[electronic resource] ] : race, death, and memory in Barnum's America / / Benjamin Reiss
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| Pubblicazione: | Cambridge, Mass., : Harvard University Press, 2010 |
| Edizione: | 1st Harvard University Press pbk. ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (280 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 306/.0973/09034 |
| Soggetto topico: | Popular culture - United States - History - 19th century |
| Enslaved women - United States | |
| Freak shows - Social aspects - United States - History - 19th century | |
| White people - Race identity - United States | |
| African Americans in popular culture - History - 19th century | |
| Racism in popular culture - United States - History - 19th century | |
| Death in popular culture - United States - History - 19th century | |
| Soggetto geografico: | Northeastern States Race relations |
| Note generali: | Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [227]-259) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- FIGURES -- AckrunvZedgments -- Introduction: The Dark Subject -- 1. DEATH AND DYING -- 1. Possession -- 2. The Celebrated Curiosity -- 3. Private Acts, Public Memories -- 4. Sacred and Profane -- 5. Culture Wars -- 6. Love, Automata, and India Rubber -- 7. Spectacle -- II. RESURRECTION -- 8. Authenticity and Commodity -- 9. Exposure and Mastery -- 10. Erasure -- III. LIFE -- 11. A Speculative Biography -- Note to the 2010 Printing -- Notes -- Index |
| Sommario/riassunto: | Reiss uses P. T. Barnum's Joice Heth hoax to examine the contours of race relations in the antebellum North. Barnum's first exhibit as a showman, Heth was an elderly enslaved woman said to be the 161-year-old former nurse of the infant George Washington. Seizing upon the novelty, the newly emerging commercial press turned her act--and especially her death--into one of the first media spectacles in American history. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | The showman and the slave |
| ISBN: | 0-674-04265-4 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910823904403321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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