Racism and Early Blackface Comic Traditions From the Old World to the New /

This book traces blackface types from ancient masks of grinning Africans and phallus-bearing Roman fools through to comedic medieval devils, the pan-European black-masked Titivillus and Harlequin, and racial impersonation via stereotypical 'black speech' explored in the Renaissance by Lope...

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Hlavní autor: Hornback, Robert (Autor)
Médium: Elektronický zdroj E-kniha
Jazyk:angličtina
Vydáno: Cham : Springer International Publishing, 2018.
Vydání:1st ed. 2018.
Edice:Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History
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ISBN:9783319780481
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Obsah:
  • 1.Introduction: Recovering the Contexts of Early Modern Proto-Racism
  • 2. Harlequin as Theatergram: Transmitting the Time-Worn Black Mask, Ancient to Antebellum
  • 3. Beyond Good and Evil Symbolism: Allegories and Metaphysics of Blackfaced Folly
  • 4. From Allegorical Type and Sartorial Satire to Minstrel Dandy Stereotype and Blackface-on-Black Violence
  • 5. Sambo Dialects: Defining National Language Boundaries via Early Representations of Stereotypically Black Speech
  • 6. Blackface in Shakespeare: Challenging Racial Allegories of Folly and Speech
  • 7. Shakespeare in Blackface: Black Shakespeareans vs. Minstrel Burlesques, 1821-1844
  • 8. A New Theory of Pre-Modern or Proto-Racism
  • 9. White Nationalism, Trolling Humor as Propaganda, and the "Renaissance" of Christian Racism in the Age of Trump.