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Performing Race and Erasure: Cuba, Haiti, and US Culture, 1898-1940
Shannon Rose Riley
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Hardback. Series: Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History. Num Pages: 286 pages, 6 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 1KJC; 1KJH; 3JJ; AN; HBJK; JFC; JFSL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 160 x 218 x 21. Weight in Grams: 492.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Series
Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History
Condition
New
Number of Pages
273
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781137592101
SKU
V9781137592101
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About Shannon Rose Riley
Shannon Rose Riley is an interdisciplinary artist and scholar. She is Associate Professor, Chair of the Department of Humanities, and Coordinator of the Creative Arts Program at San Jose State University, USA, and is co-editor, with Lynette Hunter, of Mapping Landscapes for Performance as Research: Scholarly Acts and Creative Cartographies (2009).
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