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The scene of Harlem cabaret : race, sexuality, performance
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The scene of Harlem cabaret : race, sexuality, performance / Shane Vogel.
ISBN
9780226862514 (cloth : alk. paper)
0226862518 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780226862521 (paper : alk. paper)
0226862526 (paper : alk. paper)
Published
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2009.
Physical Description
xiii, 257 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.
Format
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Language
English
Added to Catalog
April 28, 2009
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 227-243) and index.
Contents
Introduction: Against uplift : performance, literature, and the queer Harlem Renaissance
American cabaret performance and the production of intimacy
The scene of Harlem cabaret : 1926 and after
Closing time : Langston Hughes and the queer poetics of Harlem nightlife
Rereading Du Bois reading McKay : uplift sociology and the problem of amusement
Lena Horne's impersona
Afterword: Irrealizing the queer Harlem Renaissance.
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