Title Racial geometries of the Black Atlantic, Asian Pacific and American theatre / Shannon Steen

Published Basingstoke, England ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 209 pages) : illustrations Series Studies in international performance Studies in international performance. Contents How Uncle Tom's cabin killed the king of Siam -- Passing between nations: racial impersonation and transnational affiliation -- Melancholy bodies: Eugene O'Neill, imperial critique, and Irish assimilation -- American progress: the paradox of internationalism -- The geometries of swing: a black Pacific and The swing mikados -- Coda: the black face of US imperialism Summary Drawing on original archival research, Racial Geometries examines popular forms of performance -- from musical theatre and minstrelsy to non-theatrical forms like Chinatown tourism -- to expose how American racial formation between the two World Wars was not determined only within national borders but traded on and influenced international dynamics --Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-206) and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL digitized 2011 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Print version record Subject Racism and the arts -- United States -- History -- 20th century Performing arts -- Social aspects -- United States Arts and society -- United States -- History -- 20th century African Americans in the performing arts. Asians in the performing arts. Racism in literature. Race relations in literature. African Americans in literature. Asians in literature. PERFORMING ARTS -- Theater -- General. African Americans in literature African Americans in the performing arts Arts and society Asians in literature Asians in the performing arts Ethnic relations Performing arts -- Social aspects Race relations in literature Racism and the arts Racism in literature SUBJECT United States -- Ethnic relations -- History -- 20th century Subject United States Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9780230297401 0230297404

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