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Street scenes staging the self in immigrant New York, 1880-1924
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Title
Street scenes [electronic resource] : staging the self in immigrant New York, 1880-1924 / Esther Romeyn.
ISBN
0816666261
9780816666263
0816645213 (hardcover : alk. paper)
0816645221 (pbk.)
9780816645213 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9780816645220 (pbk.)
Published
Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2008. (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015)
Physical Description
1 online resource (xxxi, 273 p. :) : ill. ;
Local Notes
Access is available to the Yale community.
Notes
Description based on print version record.
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Variant and related titles
UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
Project MUSE - UPCC Archive Complete Supplement III.
Project MUSE - UPCC Archive Film, Theater and Performing Arts Supplement III.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
February 13, 2015
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 213-261) and index.
Contents
pt. 1. The city as theater : performativity and urban space
The epistemology of the city
Detecting, acting, and the hierarchy of the social body
Crossing the Bowery : female slumming and the theater of urban space
Eros and Americanization : the rise of David Levinsky, or the etiquette of race and sex
pt. 2. Stages of identity : performing ethnic subjects
Juggling identities : the case of an Italian American clown
My other/my self : impersonation and the rehearsal of otherness
The truth of racial signs : civilizing the Jewish comic
Blackface, Jewface, whiteface : racial impersonation revisited.
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