Representing African Americans in transatlantic abolitionism and blackface minstrelsy
By: Robert Nowatzki.
Publisher: Louisiana State University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Baton Rouge
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780807136409
Subjects: Antislavery movements -- United States -- History -- 19th century; Antislavery movements -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century; Minstrel shows -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- 19th century; Minstrel shows -- Social aspects -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century; African Americans in popular culture -- United States -- History -- 19th century; African Americans in popular culture -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Strange bedfellows : blackface minstrelsy and abolitionism in America; title: Abolitionism, nationalism, blackface minstrelsy, and racial attitudes in Victorian Britain; title: Race, abolitionism, and blackface imagery in Victorian literature; title: "Our only truly national poets" : blackface minstrelsy, slave narratives, cultural; title: Nationalism, and the American Renaissance; title: Blackface tropes in nineteenth-century American literature.