Hazel Waters, Waters Hazel

Racism on the Victorian Stage

Representation of Slavery and the Black Character

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A study of the black presence on the Victorian English stage.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 252
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. November 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 415g
• ISBN-13: 9780521107556
• ISBN-10: 0521107555
• Artikelnr.: 25933389

Autorenporträt

Hazel Waters is the editor of Race and Class.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. From vengeance to sentiment
2. The beginning of the end for the black avenger
3. Ira Aldridge and the battlefield of race
4. The comic and the grotesque: the American influence
5. The consolidation of the black grotesque
6. Slavery freed from the constraint of blackness
7. Uncle Tom - moral high ground or low comedy?
Afterword.