Batiste Stephanie Leigh Batiste

Darkening Mirrors (eBook, PDF)

Imperial Representation in Depression-Era African American Performance

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Produktbeschreibung

In Darkening Mirrors, Stephanie Leigh Batiste examines how African Americans participated in U.S. cultural imperialism in Depression-era stage and screen performances. A population treated as second-class citizens at home imagined themselves as empowered, modern U.S. citizens and transnational actors in plays, operas, ballets, and films. Many of these productions, such as the 1938 hits Haiti and The "e;Swing"e; Mikado recruited large casts of unknown performers, involving the black community not only as spectators but also as participants. Performances of exoticism, orientalism, and primitivism are inevitably linked to issues of embodiment, including how bodies signify blackness as a cultural, racial, and global category. Whether enacting U.S. imperialism in westerns, dramas, dances, songs, jokes, or comedy sketches, African Americans maintained a national identity that registered a diasporic empowerment and resistance on the global stage. Boldly addressing the contradictions in these performances, Batiste challenges the simplistic notion that the oppressed cannot identify with oppressive modes of power and enact themselves as empowered subjects. Darkening Mirrors adds nuance and depth to the history of African American subject formation and stage and screen performance.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Januar 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780822393757
• Artikelnr.: 54788218

Autorenporträt

Stephanie Leigh Batiste

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures ix
Prologue xi
Acknowledgments xix
Introduction 1
1. "Harlem Rides the Range": Expansion, Modernity, and Negro Success 27
2. Epaulets and Leaf Skirts, Warriors, and Subversives: Exoticism in the
Performance of the Haitian Revolution 70
3. Prisms of Imperial Gaze: Swinging the Negro Mikado 115
4. Lens/Body: Anthropology's Methodologies and Spaces of Reflection in
Dunham's Diaspora 165
5. Ethnographic Refraction: Exoticism and Diasporic Sisterhood in The
Devil's Daughter 201
6. No Storm in the Weather: Domestic Bliss and African American Performance
228
Epilogue 256
Notes 261
Bibliography 299
Index 317