African showpeople (real as well as counterfeit), managers and impresarios, and the audiences who came to gape are the featured attractions here-how they individually and in concert helped to shape Western perceptions of Africans.
African showpeople (real as well as counterfeit), managers and impresarios, and the audiences who came to gape are the featured attractions here-how they individually and in concert helped to shape Western perceptions of Africans.
Bernth Lindfors is Professor of English and African Literatures at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the founding editor of the journal of Research in African Literature and has written and edited a number of books on African verbal arts, the most recent being African Textualities: Texts, Pre-texts, and Contexts of African Literature (1997).
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Introduction Zoe Strother Display of the Body Hottentot Bernth Lindfors Charles Dickens and the Zulus Shane Peacock Africa Meets the Great Farini Veit Erlmann 'Spectatorial Lust': The African Choir in England 1891-1893 Robert W. Rydell 'Darkest Africa': African Shows at America's World's Fairs 1893-1940 Jeffrey Green A Strange Revelation in Humankind: Six Congo Pygmies in Britain 1905-1907 Harvey Blume Ota Benga and the Barnum Perplex Neil Parsons 'Clicko ' Franz Taaibosch South African Bushman Entertainer in England France Cuba and the United States 1908-1940
Introduction Zoe Strother Display of the Body Hottentot Bernth Lindfors Charles Dickens and the Zulus Shane Peacock Africa Meets the Great Farini Veit Erlmann 'Spectatorial Lust': The African Choir in England 1891-1893 Robert W. Rydell 'Darkest Africa': African Shows at America's World's Fairs 1893-1940 Jeffrey Green A Strange Revelation in Humankind: Six Congo Pygmies in Britain 1905-1907 Harvey Blume Ota Benga and the Barnum Perplex Neil Parsons 'Clicko ' Franz Taaibosch South African Bushman Entertainer in England France Cuba and the United States 1908-1940
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