Stubbs Cultivating National Identity through Performance

American Pleasure Gardens and Entertainment
2013
ISBN: 978-1-137-32687-4
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 177 Seiten, eBook

Reihe: Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History

As outdoor entertainment venues in American cities, pleasure gardens were public spaces where people could explore what it meant to be American. Stubbs examines how these venues helped form American identity and argues the gardens allowed for the exploration of what it meant to be American through performance, both on and off the stage.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Stubbs, N.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Performing Nation: The Pleasure Gardens as a Space for Defining America 2. Performing Place: The Rural/Urban Tension 3. Performing Class: The Challenge to and Reaffirmation of Class Divisions and Hierarchies 4. Performing Race: Native Americans and African Americans Within the Gardens 5. Beyond the Pleasure Garden

Über Autor(innen)

Naomi Stubbs is an Assistant Professor in the English Department at Laguardia Community College, City University of New York, USA.