The Heathen Chinee In The Nineteenth Century American Drama
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The Heathen Chinee In The Nineteenth Century American Drama
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Author : Li-Li Yang
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1984
The Heathen Chinee In The Nineteenth Century American Drama written by Li-Li Yang and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1984 with Chinese categories.
Racial Indigestion
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Author : Kyla Wazana Tompkins
language : en
Publisher: NYU Press
Release Date : 2012-07-30
Racial Indigestion written by Kyla Wazana Tompkins and has been published by NYU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-07-30 with History categories.
Struggling To Define A Nation
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Author : Charles Hiroshi Garrett
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2008-10-12
Struggling To Define A Nation written by Charles Hiroshi Garrett and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-10-12 with Music categories.
Identifying music as a vital site of cultural debate, this book captures the dynamic, contested nature of musical life in the United States. It examines an array of genres - including art music, jazz, popular song, ragtime, and Hawaiian music - and well-known musicians, such as Charles Ives, Jelly Roll Morton, Louis Armstrong, and Irving Berlin.
Sitting In Darkness
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Author : Hsuan L. Hsu
language : en
Publisher: NYU Press
Release Date : 2015-02-20
Sitting In Darkness written by Hsuan L. Hsu and has been published by NYU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-02-20 with Literary Criticism categories.
Perhaps the most popular of all canonical American authors, Mark Twain is famous for creating works that satirize American formations of race and empire. While many scholars have explored Twain’s work in African Americanist contexts, his writing on Asia and Asian Americans remains largely in the shadows. In Sitting in Darkness, Hsuan Hsu examines Twain’s career-long archive of writings about United States relations with China and the Philippines. Comparing Twain’s early writings about Chinese immigrants in California and Nevada with his later fictions of slavery and anti-imperialist essays, he demonstrates that Twain’s ideas about race were not limited to white and black, but profoundly comparative as he carefully crafted assessments of racialization that drew connections between groups, including African Americans, Chinese immigrants, and a range of colonial populations. Drawing on recent legal scholarship, comparative ethnic studies, and transnational and American studies, Sitting in Darkness engages Twain’s best-known novels such as Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn, and A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, as well as his lesser-known Chinese and trans-Pacific inflected writings, such as the allegorical tale “A Fable of the Yellow Terror” and the yellow face play Ah Sin. Sitting in Darkness reveals how within intersectional contexts of Chinese Exclusion and Jim Crow, these writings registered fluctuating connections between immigration policy, imperialist ventures, and racism.
Milestones In Asian American Theatre
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Author : Josephine Lee
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2022-09-30
Milestones In Asian American Theatre written by Josephine Lee and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-09-30 with Performing Arts categories.
This introduction to Asian American theatre charts ten of the most pivotal moments in the history of the Asian diaspora in the USA and how those moments have been reflected in theatre. Designed for weekly use on Asian American theatre courses, ten chosen milestones move chronologically from the earliest contact between Japan and the West through the impact of the Vietnam War and the resurgent "yellow peril" hysteria of COVID-19. Each chapter emphasizes common questions of how racial identities and relationships are understood in everyday life as well as represented on the theatrical stage and in popular culture. Milestones are a range of accessible textbooks, breaking down the need-to-know moments in the social, cultural, political, and artistic development of foundational subject areas.
Entertaining The Nation
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Author : Tice L. Miller
language : en
Publisher: SIU Press
Release Date : 2007-10-25
Entertaining The Nation written by Tice L. Miller and has been published by SIU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-10-25 with Drama categories.
In this survey of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century American drama, Tice L. Miller examines American plays written before a canon was established in American dramatic literature and provides analyses central to the culture that produced them. Entertaining the Nation: American Drama in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries evaluates plays in the early years of the republic, reveals shifts in taste from the classical to the contemporary in the 1840s and 1850s, and considers the increasing influence of realism at the end of the nineteenth century. Miller explores the relationship between American drama and societal issues during this period. While never completely shedding its English roots, says Miller, the American drama addressed issues important on this side of the Atlantic such as egalitarianism, republicanism, immigration, slavery, the West, Wall Street, and the Civil War. In considering the theme of egalitarianism, the volume notes Alexis de Tocqueville’s observation in 1831 that equality was more important to Americans than liberty. Also addressed is the Yankee character, which became a staple in American comedy for much of the nineteenth century. Miller analyzes several English plays and notes how David Garrick’s reforms in London were carried over to the colonies. Garrick faced an increasingly middle-class public, offers Miller, and had to make adjustments to plays and to his repertory to draw an audience. The volumealso looks at the shift in drama that paralleled the one in political power from the aristocrats who founded the nation to Jacksonian democrats. Miller traces how the proliferation of newspapers developed a demand for plays that reflected contemporary society and details how playwrights scrambled to put those symbols of the outside world on stage to appeal to the public. Steamships and trains, slavery and adaptations of Uncle Tom’s Cabin, and French influences are presented as popular subjects during that time. Entertaining the Nation effectively outlines the civilizing force of drama in the establishment and development of the nation, ameliorating differences among the various theatergoing classes, and provides a microcosm of the changes on and off the stage in America during these two centuries.
Great North American Stage Directors Volume 1
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Author : Cheryl Black
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2024-01-25
Great North American Stage Directors Volume 1 written by Cheryl Black and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-01-25 with Performing Arts categories.
This volume assesses the contributions of David Belasco, Arthur Hopkins, and Margaret Webster, whose careers shaped the artistic and specialist identity of the Broadway director. Their work spans almost a century and captures the rapidly changing social and cultural landscape of 20th-century America. While their aesthetic styles differed greatly, they were united in their mastery of theatre craft and their impact on theatrical collaboration. The essays in this volume explore how these directors established and exploited Broadway as the epicentre of theatre in the United States, blended the role of producer and director, and managed the tensions between commercial success and artistic ambition. The Great North American Stage Directors series provides an authoritative account of the art of directing in North America by examining the work of twenty-four major practitioners from the late 19th century to the present. Each of the eight volumes examines three directors and offers an overview of their practices, theoretical ideas, and contributions to modern theatre. The studies chart the life and work of each director, placing his or her achievement in the context of other important theatre practitioners and broader social history. Written by a team of leading experts, the series presents the genealogy of directing in North America while simultaneously chronicling crucial trends and championing contemporary interpretation.
Theatre History Studies
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2006
Theatre History Studies written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Theater categories.
Famine Irish And The American Racial State
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Author : Peter D. O'Neill
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2017-02-03
Famine Irish And The American Racial State written by Peter D. O'Neill and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-02-03 with History categories.
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Figures and Table -- Acknowledgments -- Permissions -- Introduction: Famine Irish and the American Racial State -- 1 Black and Green Atlantic Crossings in the Famine Era -- 2 Irish Catholic Empire Building in America -- 3 The Writin' Irish -- or, Catholic Irish America's Famine-Era Authors -- 4 A Code for the True American Catholic Man or Woman -- 5 Gender Laundering Irish Women and Chinese Men in San Francisco -- 6 In California, Workers Divided -- 7 An Irish Worker's Post-national Horizon -- Conclusion -- Appendix -- Index
Urban Triage
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Author : James Kyung-Jin Lee
language : en
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Release Date : 2004
Urban Triage written by James Kyung-Jin Lee and has been published by U of Minnesota Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Social Science categories.
In the 1980s, America witnessed an explosion in the production, popularity, and influence of literary works by people of color and a decade-long economic downturn that severely affected America's inner cities and the already disadvantaged communities of color that lived there. Marked by soaring levels of unemployment, homelessness, violence, drug abuse, and despair, this urban crisis gave the lie to the American dream, particularly when contrasted with the success enjoyed by the era's iconic stockbrokers and other privileged groups, whose fortunes increased dramatically under Reaganomics. In Urban Triage, James Kyung-Jin Lee explores how these parallel trends of literary celebration and social misery manifested themselves in fictional narratives of racial anxiety by focusing on four key works: Alejandro Morales's The Brick People, John Edgar Wideman's Philadelphia Fire, Hisaye Yamamoto's "A Fire in Fontana," and Tom Wolfe's The Bonfire of the Vanities. Each of these fictions, he finds, addresses the decade's racial, ethnic, and economic inequities from differing perspectives: Morales's revisions of Chicano identity, Yamamoto's troubled invocation of the affinities between African Americans and Asian Americans, the problematic connections between black intellectuals and the black community aired by Wideman, and Wolfe's satirization of white privilege. Drawing on the fields of literary criticism, public policy, sociology, and journalism, Lee deftly assesses the success with which these multicultural fictions engaged in the debates over these issues and the extent to which they may actually have alienated the very communities that their creators purported to represent. Challenging boththe uncritical celebration of abstract multiculturalism and its simpleminded vilification, Lee roots Urban Triage in specific instances of multiracial contact and deeply informed readings of works that have been canonized within ethnic studies and of those that either remain misunderstood or were misguided from the start. James Kyung-Jin Lee is assistant professor of English and Asian American studies at the University of Texas at Austin.