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 (p. 197-206) 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.