Stephens Skin Acts

Race, Psychoanalysis, and the Black Male Performer
1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-0-8223-7665-1
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 296 Seiten

In Skin Acts, Michelle Ann Stephens explores the work of four iconic twentieth-century black male performers—Bert Williams, Paul Robeson, Harry Belafonte, and Bob Marley—to reveal how racial and sexual difference is both marked by and experienced in the skin.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Stephens, Michelle Ann

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Tanz Andere Darstellende Künste
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface vii

Acknowledgments xiii

Introduction. Fleshing Out the Act 1

1. Seeing Faces, Hearing Signs 31

2. Bodylines, Borderlines, Color Lines 71

3. The Problem of Color 111

4. In the Flesh, Living Sound 153

Conclusion. Defacing Race, Rethinking the Skin 191

Notes 205

Bibliography 259

Index 273

Über Autor(innen)

Michelle Ann Stephens is Associate Professor of English and Latino and Hispanic Caribbean Studies at Rutgers University, New Brunswick. She is the author of Black Empire: The Masculine Global Imaginary of Caribbean Intellectuals in the United States, 1914–1962, also published by Duke University Press.