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Darkening mirrors : imperial representation in Depression-era African American performance / Stephanie Leigh Batiste.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Batiste, Stephanie Leigh, 1972-
- Series:
- e-Duke books scholarly collection.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African Americans--Race identity--History--20th century.
- African Americans.
- African American theater--History--20th century.
- African American theater.
- African Americans in motion pictures--History--20th century.
- African Americans in motion pictures.
- African Americans in popular culture--History--20th century.
- African Americans in popular culture.
- African American arts--20th century.
- African American arts.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (350 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham [N.C.] : Duke University Press, 2011.
- Durham ; London : Duke University Press, [2011]
- Language Note:
- English
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- Darkening Mirrors analyzes the complicated relationships between African American identity, as reflected in performances, and the forces of imperialist and racial oppression.
- Contents:
- "Harlem rides the range" : expansion, modernity, and Negro success
- Epaulets and leaf skirts, warriors and subversives : exoticism in the performance of the Haitian revolution
- Prisms of imperial gaze : swinging the Negro Mikado
- Lens/body : anthropology's methodologies and spaces of reflection in Dunham's diaspora
- Ethnographic refraction : exoticism and diasporic sisterhood in The devil's daughter
- No storm in the weather : domestic bliss and African American performance.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9786613414069
- 9781283414067
- 1283414066
- 9780822393757
- 0822393751
- OCLC:
- 774916681
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