Josephine Lee
Author
Publisher
University of North Carolina Press
Pub. Date
2022
Physical Desc
1 online resource (xii, 331 pages)
Language
English
Description
In this book, Josephine Lee looks at the intertwined racial representations of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American theater. In minstrelsy, melodrama, vaudeville, and musicals, both white and African American performers enacted blackface characterizations alongside oriental stereotypes of opulence and deception, comic servitude, and exotic sexuality. Lee shows how blackface types were often associated with working-class masculinity and...