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New World Drama - The Performative Commons in the Atlantic World, 1649-1849 (Hardcover)
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New World Drama - The Performative Commons in the Atlantic World, 1649-1849 (Hardcover)
Series: New Americanists
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In New World Drama, Elizabeth Maddock Dillon turns to the riotous
scene of theatre in the eighteenth-century Atlantic world to
explore the creation of new publics. Moving from England to the
Caribbean to the early United States, she traces the theatrical
emergence of a collective body in the colonized New World—one
that included indigenous peoples, diasporic Africans, and diasporic
Europeans. In the raucous space of the theatre, the contradictions
of colonialism loomed large. Foremost among these was the central
paradox of modernity: the coexistence of a massive slave economy
and a nascent politics of freedom. Â Audiences in London
eagerly watched the royal slave, Oroonoko, tortured on stage, while
audiences in Charleston and Kingston were forbidden from watching
the same scene. Audiences in Kingston and New York City exuberantly
participated in the slaying of Richard III on stage, enacting the
rise of the "people," and Native American leaders were enjoined to
watch actors in blackface "jump Jim Crow." Dillon argues that the
theater served as a "performative commons," staging debates over
representation in a political world based on popular sovereignty.
Her book is a capacious account of performance, aesthetics, and
modernity in the eighteenth-century Atlantic world. Â
General
Imprint: |
Duke University Press
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Series: |
New Americanists |
Release date: |
September 2014 |
First published: |
August 2014 |
Authors: |
Elizabeth Maddock Dillon
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Dimensions: |
229 x 152 x 26mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Hardcover
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Pages: |
368 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-8223-5324-9 |
Categories: |
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LSN: |
0-8223-5324-5 |
Barcode: |
9780822353249 |
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