Street scenes
Subtitle: staging the self in immigrant New York, 1880-1924
By: Esther Romeyn.
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Minneapolis
Language: eng
Number of pages: 273
ISBN-13: 9780816645213
Subjects: Minorities -- New York (State) -- New York -- Social conditions; Minorities -- New York (State) -- New York -- Intellectual life; Immigrants -- New York (State) -- New York -- Social conditions; Immigrants -- New York (State) -- New York -- Intellectual life; Performing arts -- Social aspects -- New York (State) -- New York -- History; Self -- New York (State) -- New York -- History; Ethnicity -- New York (State) -- New York -- History; City and town life -- New York (State) -- New York -- History; New York (N.Y.) -- Ethnic relations; New York (N.Y.) -- Intellectual life
Description: 'Street Scenes' focuses on the intersection of modern city life and stage performance. From street life and slumming to vaudeville and early cinema, to Yiddish theatre and blackface comedy, Romeyn discloses racial comedy, passing, and masquerade as gestures of cultural translation.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: pt. 1. The city as theater : performativity and urban space; title: The epistemology of the city; title: Detecting, acting, and the hierarchy of the social body; title: Crossing the Bowery : female slumming and the theater of urban space; title: Eros and Americanization : the rise of David Levinsky, or, The etiquette of race and sex; title: pt. 2. Stages of identity : performing ethnic subjects; title: Juggling identities : the case of an Italian-American clown; title: My other/my self : impersonation and the rehearsal of otherness; title: The truth of racial signs : civilizing the Jewish comic; title: Blackface, Jewface, whiteface : racial impersonation revisited.