Racial geometries of the Black Atlantic, Asian Pacific and American theatre
By: Shannon Steen
Series: Studies in international performance
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Basingstoke, England; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 209
ISBN-13: 9780230221932
Description: "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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: How Uncle Tom's cabin killed the king of Siam; title: Passing between nations : racial impersonation and transnational affiliation; title: Melancholy bodies : Eugene O'Neill, imperial critique, and Irish assimilation; title: American progress : the paradox of internationalism; title: The geometries of swing : a black Pacific and The swing mikados; title: Coda : the black face of US imperialism.