Resistance, Parody, and Double Consciousness in African-American Theatre, 1895-1910

Abstract

Acknowledgments - Introduction: Black Theatre and American Culture - 'The Mirror Up To Nature': Modernist Aesthetics and Racial Authenticity in African American Theatre, 1895-1900 - 'Glimpses of Higher Possibilities': Class and Race in African American Theatre During the Early Progressive Era - Rewriting the Body: Aida Overton Walker and the Social Formation of Cakewalking - 'Have You Ever Seen Anyone Stick So Close to a Cracker?': Parody, Romance, and History in Williams and Walker's Abyssinia - 'The Ladder of Fame': Pragmatist Ideology and Overlapping Diasporas in African American Theatre, 1906-1910 - 'A Way of Telling Things': The Past Is Now Present - Endnotes -Bibliography

Cite this work

No public copy is stored for this record, so only the metadata is cited.

Stored only when both papers are in the corpus — 148 citations exist upstream.