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Performing Race and Erasure - Cuba, Haiti, and US Culture, 1898-1940 (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016)
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Performing Race and Erasure - Cuba, Haiti, and US Culture, 1898-1940 (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016)
Series: Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History
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In this book, Shannon Rose Riley provides a critically rich
investigation of representations of Cuba and Haiti in US culture in
order to analyze their significance not only to the emergence of
empire but especially to the reconfiguration of US racial
structures along increasingly biracial lines. Based on impressive
research and with extensive analysis of various textual and
performance forms including a largely unique set of skits, plays,
songs, cultural performances and other popular amusements, Riley
shows that Cuba and Haiti were particularly meaningful to the ways
that people in the US re-imagined themselves as black or white and
that racial positions were renegotiated through what she calls acts
of palimpsest: marking and unmarking, racing and erasing
difference. Riley's book demands a reassessment of the importance
of the occupations of Cuba and Haiti to US culture, challenging
conventional understandings of performance, empire, and race at the
turn of the twentieth century.
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