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Informationen zum Autor SHANNON STEEN is assistant professor of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies at the University of California at Berkeley, USA, where she is also faculty for the program in American Studies. She is the co-editor with Heike Raphael-Hernandez of AfroAsian Encounters: History, Culture, Politics . Prior to her appointment at Berkeley, she served as faculty in the English Department at Northwestern University. Klappentext An exciting new work on how black and Asian racial structures were woven together within US theatrical practices in the run up to the Second World War, Steen uses this history to model how we might use performance histories to more carefully assess how racial formation occurs on the boundaries between racial groups in an international context. Zusammenfassung An exciting new work on how black and Asian racial structures were woven together within US theatrical practices in the run up to the Second World War! Steen uses this history to model how we might use performance histories to more carefully assess how racial formation occurs on the boundaries between racial groups in an international context. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Illustrations Series Editors' Preface Acknowledgements How Uncle Tom's Cabin Killed the King of Siam Passing Between Nations: Racial Impersonation and Transnational Affiliation Melancholy Bodies: Eugene O'Neill, Imperial Critique, and Irish Assimilation American Progress: Tours, Tourism, and Internationalism The Geometries of Swing: A Black Pacific and The Swing Mikados Coda: The Black Face of US Imperialism Notes Bibliography Index
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List of Illustrations Series Editors' Preface Acknowledgements How Uncle Tom's Cabin Killed the King of Siam Passing Between Nations: Racial Impersonation and Transnational Affiliation Melancholy Bodies: Eugene O'Neill, Imperial Critique, and Irish Assimilation American Progress: Tours, Tourism, and Internationalism The Geometries of Swing: A Black Pacific and The Swing Mikados Coda: The Black Face of US Imperialism Notes Bibliography Index
