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Representing African Americans in transatlantic abolitionism and blackface minstrelsy / Robert Nowatzki.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Nowatzki, Robert, 1965-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Antislavery movements--United States--History--19th century.
- Antislavery movements.
- Antislavery movements--Great Britain--History--19th century.
- Minstrel shows--Social aspects--United States--History--19th century.
- Minstrel shows.
- Minstrel shows--Social aspects--Great Britain--History--19th century.
- African Americans in popular culture--History--19th century.
- African Americans in popular culture.
- African Americans in popular culture--Great Britain--History--19th century.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (231 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, c2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In this intriguing study, Robert Nowatzki reveals the unexpected relationships between blackface entertainment and antislavery sentiment in the United States and Britain. He contends that the ideological ambiguity of both phenomena enabled the similarities between early minstrelsy and abolitionism in their depictions of African Americans, as well as their appropriations of each other's rhetoric, imagery, sentiment, and characterization. Nowatzki reveals how the most popular form of theatrical entertainment and the most significant reform movement of nineteenth-century Britain and America helpe
- Contents:
- Strange bedfellows: blackface minstrelsy and abolitionism in America
- Abolitionism, nationalism, blackface minstrelsy, and racial attitudes in Victorian Britain
- Race, abolitionism, and blackface imagery in Victorian literature
- Our only truly national poets: blackface minstrelsy, slave narratives, cultural
- Nationalism, and the American Renaissance
- Blackface tropes in nineteenth-century American literature.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780807146972
- 0807146978
- 9780807137451
- 0807137456
- OCLC:
- 659500484
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