Megan Sanborn Jones

Performing American Identity in Anti-Mormon Melodrama (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

In the late nineteenth century, melodramas were spectacular entertainment for Americans. They were also a key forum in which elements of American culture were represented, contested, and inverted. This book focuses on the Mormon villain in anti-Mormon melodramas and analyses what these melodramas reveal about American identity in the nineteenth century.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 222
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Juni 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135967918
• Artikelnr.: 42983355

Autorenporträt

Megan Sanborn Jones is an assistant professor in the Theatre and Media Arts Department at Brigham Young University. Her research has been published in Theatre Journal, State of the Art, and The Journal of Mormon History. Her essay, "(Re)living the Pioneer Past" was the cover article of Theatre Topics (September 2006).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Outside/Inside America 1. The Christian Melodramatic Mode 2.
Rapists: The Sexual Fantasy of Polygamy 3. Murderers: The Necessity of
Honorable Violence 4. Turks: Appropriating Ethnicity. Conclusion: The
Paradox of Identity. Notes. Bibliography. Index.