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Slavery and Sentiment on the American Stage, 1787-1861 - Lifting the Veil of Black (Hardcover): Heather S. Nathans Slavery and Sentiment on the American Stage, 1787-1861 - Lifting the Veil of Black (Hardcover)
Heather S. Nathans
R2,683 R2,397 Discovery Miles 23 970 Save R286 (11%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

For almost a hundred years before Uncle Tom's Cabin burst on to the scene in 1852, the American theatre struggled to represent the evils of slavery. Slavery and Sentiment questions how the text, images, and performances presented to American audiences during the antebellum period engaged with the debate over black participation in American society. The book reconsiders traditional comic stereotypes like Jim Crow, as well as familiar sentimental ones, such as Uncle Tom. Using plays, poetry, performances, popular novels, and political cartoons, Heather Nathans blends American history, theatre history, and literary history to question how theatre and performance lifted the 'veil of black' on American racism in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The book contributes to the ongoing discussion of the role of African-American characters and performers in American cultural history, offering scholars in a range of fields a new perspective on a complicated moment in the nation's theatrical past.

Early American Theatre from the Revolution to Thomas Jefferson - Into the Hands of the People (Hardcover, New): Heather S.... Early American Theatre from the Revolution to Thomas Jefferson - Into the Hands of the People (Hardcover, New)
Heather S. Nathans
R2,736 Discovery Miles 27 360 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Theater has often served as a touchstone for moments of political change or national definition and as a way of exploring cultural and ethnic identity. Heather Nathans examines its growth and influence in the development of the young American Republic--from the Revolution through the election of Thomas Jefferson in 1800. Unlike many works on early American theater, this book explores the lives and motives of the people working behind the scenes to establish a new national drama.

Shakespearean Educations - Power, Citizenship, and Performance (Paperback): Coppelia Kahn Shakespearean Educations - Power, Citizenship, and Performance (Paperback)
Coppelia Kahn; Coppelia Kahn; Edited by Heather S. Nathans; Heather S. Nathans; Edited by Mimi Godfrey; …
R1,670 Discovery Miles 16 700 Out of stock

Shakespearean Educations examines how and why Shakespeare's works shaped the development of American education from the colonial period through the 1934 Chicago World's Fair, taking the reader up to the years before the Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944 (popularly known as the GI Bill), coeducation, and a nascent civil rights movement would alter the educational landscape yet again. The essays in this collection query the nature of education, the nature of citizenship in a democracy, and the roles of literature, elocution, theater, and performance in both. Expanding the notion of "education" beyond the classroom to literary clubs, private salons, public lectures, libraries, primers, and theatrical performance, this collection challenges scholars to consider how different groups in our society have adopted Shakespeare as part of a specifically "American" education. Shakespearean Educations maps the ways in which former slaves, Puritan ministers, university leaders, and working class theatergoers used Shakespeare not only to educate themselves about literature and culture, but also to educate others about their own experience. Published by University of Delaware Press.

Early American Theatre from the Revolution to Thomas Jefferson - Into the Hands of the People (Paperback, New ed): Heather S.... Early American Theatre from the Revolution to Thomas Jefferson - Into the Hands of the People (Paperback, New ed)
Heather S. Nathans
R771 Discovery Miles 7 710 Out of stock

Theatre has often served as a touchstone for moments of political change or national definition and as a way of exploring cultural and ethnic identity. In this 2003 book, Heather Nathans examines the growth and influence of the theatre in the development of the young American Republic, from the Revolution through to the election of Thomas Jefferson in 1800. Unlike many works on the early American theatre, this book explores the lives and motives of the people working behind the scenes to establish a new national drama. Some of the most famous figures in American history, from George Washington to Sam Adams, from John Hancock to Alexander Hamilton, battled over the creation of the American theatre. The book traces their motives and strategies - suggesting that for many of these men, the question of whether or not Americans should go to the playhouse meant the difference between the success and failure of the Revolutionary mission.

Slavery and Sentiment on the American Stage, 1787-1861 - Lifting the Veil of Black (Paperback): Heather S. Nathans Slavery and Sentiment on the American Stage, 1787-1861 - Lifting the Veil of Black (Paperback)
Heather S. Nathans
R343 R304 Discovery Miles 3 040 Save R39 (11%) Out of stock

For almost a hundred years before Uncle Tom's Cabin burst on to the scene in 1852, the American theatre struggled to represent the evils of slavery. Slavery and Sentiment questions how the text, images, and performances presented to American audiences during the antebellum period engaged with the debate over black participation in American society. The book reconsiders traditional comic stereotypes like Jim Crow, as well as familiar sentimental ones, such as Uncle Tom. Using plays, poetry, performances, popular novels, and political cartoons, Heather Nathans blends American history, theatre history, and literary history to question how theatre and performance lifted the 'veil of black' on American racism in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The book contributes to the ongoing discussion of the role of African-American characters and performers in American cultural history, offering scholars in a range of fields a new perspective on a complicated moment in the nation's theatrical past.

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