Representing African Americans in Transatlantic Abolitionism and Blackface Minstrelsy: Poems - Hardcover

Nowatzki, Robert

 
9780807136409: Representing African Americans in Transatlantic Abolitionism and Blackface Minstrelsy: Poems

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In this intriguing study, Robert Nowatzki reveals the unexpected relationships between blackface entertainment and antislavery sentiment in the United States and Britain. He contends that the ideological ambiguity of both phenomena enabled the similarities between early minstrelsy and abolitionism in their depictions of African Americans, as well as their appropriations of each other's rhetoric, imagery, sentiment, and characterization. Nowatzki reveals how the most popular form of theatrical entertainment and the most significant reform movement of nineteenth-century Britain and America helped define cultural representations of African Americans.

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Robert Nowatzki is an associate professor of English at Ball State University.



Robert Nowatzki is an associate professor of English at Ball State University.

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