Staging Slavery: Performances of Colonial Slavery and Race from International Perspectives, 1770-1850

ISBN-13: 9781032004273 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023 / 352 str.

Adams, Sarah J.

Opis

This international analysis of theatrical case studies illustrates the ways that theater was an arena both of protest and, simultaneously, racist and imperialist exploitations of the colonized and enslaved body.

Spis treści

Introduction: Framing the Stage: Structures of Race, Imperial Oppression, and Performances of Blackness, 1770-1850  Part 1: Slavery, Revolt, and Abolitionism  1. Slavery, Abolition, and Civic Education in French Boulevard Theater during the French Revolution  2. The Legitimacy of Resistance in Dutch Abolitionist Theater  3. The Politics of Truth-Telling: Black Resistance and the Transatlantic World in Nesselrode’s Drama Adaptation of the Ziméo-Plot Zamor und Zoraide, 1778  4. "Our Turn Next": Slavery and Freedom on French and American Stages, 1789-1799  Part 2: Race, Nation, and Empire  5. Staging Slavery "at Home": Race and Homosocial Economies in Ernst Lorenz Rathlef’s Die Mohrinn zu Hamburg, 1775  6. Performing The Revenge in Sydney: Blackface and Blackness in an Abolitionist Empire  7. The Representation of Stage "Blackness" in Theodor Körner’s Toni, 1812  8. "O pity the Black Man, he is Slave in Foreign Country": Danish Performances of Colonialism and Slavery, 1793-1848  Part 3: Black Agency, Performance, and Counter-Theater  9. Slavery as Part of the Scene: The Presence of Black and Mestizo Actors and Actresses at the Late Eighteenth-Century Vila Rica Opera House  10. Counter-Voices in the Tropics: Theater and Vernacular Performance in Rio de Janeiro  11. Protesting Slavery, Asserting Freedom, and Defying Racism: The African Grove Theatre in New York, 1821-1824  12. Epilogue: Staging Slavery, Re-Centering, and Re-Spotlighting Blackened People