Staging Haiti in Nineteenth-Century America: Revolution, Race and Popular Performance

ISBN-13: 9781009100526 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022

Peter (University of Mississippi) Reed

Opis

Peter P. Reed reveals how nineteenth-century American theatre and performance reckoned with Haiti's courageous enactments of Black freedom.

Spis treści

Introduction: performing the Haitian revolution; 1. Rebels and refugees: sentimental suffering and antic revolt in the 1790s; 2. The lessons of Haiti: performance, pedagogy, and the politics of Haitian independence; 3. Virtuosity, illegitimacy, and Haitian royalty: Ira Aldridge and Christophe, King of Hayti; 4. Travesty and transformation: Haiti and blackface minstrelsy; 5. Abolitionist acts: Haitian respectability, oratory, and celebrity performance; Conclusion: the pleasures and perils of revolutionary reenactment.