Stephanie Leigh Batiste

Darkening Mirrors

Imperial Representation in Depression-Era African American Performance

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Produktbeschreibung

Stephanie Leigh Batiste is a performance artist and Associate Professor of English and Black Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Januar 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 150mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 590g
• ISBN-13: 9780822349235
• ISBN-10: 082234923X
• Artikelnr.: 34164042

Autorenporträt

Stephanie Leigh Batiste is a performance artist and Associate Professor of English and Black Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

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