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Staging Haiti in Nineteenth-Century America - Revolution, Race and Popular Performance (Hardcover)
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Staging Haiti in Nineteenth-Century America - Revolution, Race and Popular Performance (Hardcover)
Series: Cambridge Studies in Modern Theatre
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American culture maintained a complicated relationship with Haiti
from its revolutionary beginnings onward. In this study, Peter P.
Reed reveals how Americans embodied and re-enacted their
connections to Haiti through a wide array of performance forms. In
the wake of Haiti's slave revolts in the 1790s, generations of
actors, theatre professionals, spectators, and commentators looked
to Haiti as a source of both inspiring freedom and vexing disorder.
French colonial refugees, university students, Black theatre stars,
blackface minstrels, abolitionists, and even writers such as Herman
Melville all reinvented and restaged Haiti in distinctive ways.
Reed demonstrates how Haiti's example of Black freedom and national
independence helped redefine American popular culture, as actors
and audiences repeatedly invoked and suppressed Haiti's
revolutionary narratives, characters, and themes. Ultimately, Haiti
shaped generations of performances, transforming America's
understandings of race, power, freedom, and violence in ways that
still reverberate today.
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