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Darkening Mirrors: Imperial Representation in Depression-Era African American Performance
Stephanie Leigh Batiste
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Description for Darkening Mirrors: Imperial Representation in Depression-Era African American Performance
Paperback. Darkening Mirrors analyzes the complicated relationships between African American identity, as reflected in performances, and the forces of imperialist and racial oppression. Num Pages: 352 pages, 35 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1H; 1K; AN; GTB; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 150 x 23. Weight in Grams: 590.
In Darkening Mirrors, Stephanie Leigh Batiste examines how African Americans participated in U.S. cultural imperialism in Depression-era stage and screen performances. A population treated as second-class citizens at home imagined themselves as empowered, modern U.S. citizens and transnational actors in plays, operas, ballets, and films. Many of these productions, such as the 1938 hits Haiti and The "Swing" Mikado recruited large casts of unknown performers, involving the black community not only as spectators but also as participants. Performances of exoticism, orientalism, and primitivism are inevitably linked to issues of embodiment, including how bodies signify blackness as a cultural, racial, and ... Read more
In Darkening Mirrors, Stephanie Leigh Batiste examines how African Americans participated in U.S. cultural imperialism in Depression-era stage and screen performances. A population treated as second-class citizens at home imagined themselves as empowered, modern U.S. citizens and transnational actors in plays, operas, ballets, and films. Many of these productions, such as the 1938 hits Haiti and The "Swing" Mikado recruited large casts of unknown performers, involving the black community not only as spectators but also as participants. Performances of exoticism, orientalism, and primitivism are inevitably linked to issues of embodiment, including how bodies signify blackness as a cultural, racial, and ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
North Carolina, United States
ISBN
9780822349235
SKU
V9780822349235
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About Stephanie Leigh Batiste
Stephanie Leigh Batiste is a performance artist and Associate Professor of English and Black Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
Reviews for Darkening Mirrors: Imperial Representation in Depression-Era African American Performance
"Darkening Mirrors is a powerful argument that during the 1930s, African American popular performers took part in U.S. imperial and nationalist projects even as they resisted the dominant culture's racism. In vivid, illuminating readings of films and stage shows—from The "Swing" Mikado and the Federal Theater Project's 'voodoo' Macbeth to Katherine Dunham’s concert ballet L'Ag'Ya—Stephanie Leigh Batiste makes her case ... Read more