Cultivating National Identity Through Performance - American Pleasure Gardens and Entertainment

Zusatztext To come. Informationen zum Autor Naomi Stubbs is an Assistant Professor in the English Department at Laguardia Community College, City University of New York, USA. Klappentext As outdoor entertainment venues in American cities! pleasure gardens were public spaces where people could explore what it meant to be American. Stubbs examines how these venues helped form American identity and argues the gardens allowed for the exploration of what it meant to be American through performance! both on and off the stage. Zusammenfassung As outdoor entertainment venues in American cities! pleasure gardens were public spaces where people could explore what it meant to be American. Stubbs examines how these venues helped form American identity and argues the gardens allowed for the exploration of what it meant to be American through performance! both on and off the stage. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Performing Nation: The Pleasure Gardens as a Space for Defining America 2. Performing Place: The Rural/Urban Tension 3. Performing Class: The Challenge to and Reaffirmation of Class Divisions and Hierarchies 4. Performing Race: Native Americans and African Americans Within the Gardens 5. Beyond the Pleasure Garden

List of contents

1. Performing Nation: The Pleasure Gardens as a Space for Defining America 2. Performing Place: The Rural/Urban Tension 3. Performing Class: The Challenge to and Reaffirmation of Class Divisions and Hierarchies 4. Performing Race: Native Americans and African Americans Within the Gardens 5. Beyond the Pleasure Garden

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Product details

• Authors: N Stubbs, N. Stubbs
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 20.09.2013
• EAN: 9781349460021
• ISBN: 978-1-349-46002-1
• No. of pages: 177
• Series: Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History; Palgrave Studies in Theatre an; Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; B, History, Social Inequality, Social History, Social & ethical issues, Theatre Studies, Social Structure, Social Inequality, Social groups and identities, Social Structure, History of the Americas, History, Modern, Modern History, America—History, Theater—History, Theatre History, United States—History, US History, Palgrave Theatre & Performance Collection, African Americans;identity;Native Americans;stage