Interracialism

2000-10-19

Certainly, the strategy of the octoroon plot was to win sympathy for the anti- slavery cause by displaying a cultivated, "white" sensibility threatened by, and responding to, a "black" situation. It was the octoroon's "white" ...

Author: Werner Sollors

Publisher: Oxford University Press

ISBN: 9780198029519

Category: Literary Criticism

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Interracialism, or marriage between members of different races, has formed, torn apart, defined and divided our nation since its earliest history. This collection explores the primary texts of interracialism as a means of addressing core issues in our racial identity. Ranging from Hannah Arendt to George Schuyler and from Pace v. Alabama to Loving v. Virginia, it provides extraordinary resources for faculty and students in English, American and Ethnic Studies as well as for general readers interested in race relations. By bringing together a selection of historically significant documents and of the best essays and scholarship on the subject of "miscegenation," Interracialism demonstrates that notions of race can be fruitfully approached from the vantage point of the denial of interracialism that typically informs racial ideologies.
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Bodies in Dissent

2006

Another Country : Spectacles of Conjugal Colonialism and the Empire's Body in the English Octoroon After returning to Britain in 1860 to present his critically acclaimed Irish epic The Colleen Bawn , Boucicault again opened The Octoroon ...

Author: Daphne Brooks

Publisher: Duke University Press

ISBN: 0822337223

Category: Performing Arts

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In Bodies in Dissent Daphne A. Brooks argues that from the mid-nineteenth century to the early twentieth, black transatlantic activists, actors, singers, and other entertainers frequently transformed the alienating conditions of social and political marginalization into modes of self-actualization through performance. Brooks considers the work of African American, Anglo, and racially ambiguous performers in a range of popular entertainment, including racial melodrama, spectacular theatre, moving panorama exhibitions, Pan-Africanist musicals, Victorian magic shows, religious and secular song, spiritualism, and dance. She describes how these entertainers experimented with different ways of presenting their bodies in public--through dress, movement, and theatrical technologies--to defamiliarize the spectacle of "blackness" in the transatlantic imaginary. Brooks pieces together reviews, letters, playbills, fiction, and biography in order to reconstruct not only the contexts of African American performance but also the reception of the stagings of "bodily insurgency" which she examines. Throughout the book, she juxtaposes unlikely texts and entertainers in order to illuminate the complicated transatlantic cultural landscape in which black performers intervened. She places Adah Isaacs Menken, a star of spectacular theatre, next to Sojourner Truth, showing how both used similar strategies of physical gesture to complicate one-dimensional notions of race and gender. She also considers Henry Box Brown's public re-enactments of his escape from slavery, the Pan-Africanist discourse of Bert Williams's and George Walker's musical In Dahomey (1902-04), and the relationship between gender politics, performance, and New Negro activism in the fiction of the novelist and playwright Pauline Hopkins and the postbellum stage work of the cakewalk dancer and choreographer Aida Overton Walker. Highlighting the integral connections between performance and the construction of racial identities, Brooks provides a nuanced understanding of the vitality, complexity, and influence of black performance in the United States and throughout the black Atlantic.
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Plays by Dion Boucicault

1984-09-06

APPENDIX C The ending of The Octoroon - - > The story of the ending of The Octoroon is tangled . It has been too readily believed that the ' unhappy ending was liked at the Winter Garden in New York in 1859 , and disliked - and ...

Author: Peter Thomson

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

ISBN: 0521239974

Category: Literary Collections

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Five plays by this virtuoso of the theatre have been gathered in one volume and given scholarly attention. Dion Boucicault, the most popular dramatist of the second half of the nineteenth century, was also one of the most prolific and representative. Irish in origin, he worked and wrote in England and America where for twenty years he led the touring circuit. His plays reflect the different theatrical traditions, Irish, English and American, in which he was a crucial figure. Two plays are published here for the first time this century, Used Up and Jessie Brown. The Shaughraun and The Octoroon are outstanding examples of melodrama; Old Heads and Young Hearts is one of the few notable nineteenth-century comedies. Peter Thomson's introduction assesses Boucicault's place in the nineteenth century in both England and America, and shows that his work cannot be ignored by any serious student of drama.
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Best Plays of the Early American Theatre 1787 1911

2000-01-01

An interesting report on a conflict over the production of the play will be found in the article The Octoroon War by Sheldon Faulkner , published in the Educational Theatre Journal of March , 1963 . As late as 1961 , a century after its ...

Author: John Gassner

Publisher: Courier Corporation

ISBN: 0486410986

Category: Performing Arts

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Sixteen works from American theater, 1787 1911: "Charles the Second" (1824); "Fashion "(1845); "Uncle Tom's Cabin" (1852); "The Count of Monte Cristo" (1883); "The Mouse-Trap" (1889); "The Great Divide" (1906); more. Background essay. "
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The Routledge Introduction to American Drama

2022-06-29

you think the controversy would have shaped the audience's reception of the The Octoroon? 3. Read Branden Jacobs-Jenkins's An Octoroon, the experimental 2014 adaptation of Boucicault's play (discussed in Chapter 21).

Author: Paul Thifault

Publisher: Routledge

ISBN: 9781000598698

Category: Literary Criticism

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This volume provides an accessible and engaging guide to the study of American dramatic literature. Designed to support students in reading, discussing, and writing about commonly assigned American plays, this text offers timely resources to think critically and originally about key moments on the American stage. Combining comprehensive coverage of the core plays from the post-Revolutionary era to the present, each chapter includes: historical and cultural context of each of the plays and their distinctive literary features clear introductions to the ongoing critical debates they have provoked collaborative prompts for classroom or online discussion annotated bibliographies for further research With its accessible prose style and clear structure, this introduction spotlights specific plays while encouraging students to contemplate timely questions of American identity across its selected span of US theatrical history.
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The Yachting and rowing calendar ed by Argonaut

1866

Another gybe into Broadness placed the Dione in the weather position on the starboard tack , and she again set her topmast jib ; but somehow it did not seem to draw so well as at first , and the Octoroon sailed past her to the front ...

Author: Edwin Dampier Brickwood

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ISBN: OXFORD:591076885

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LIFE

1961-02-24

But Zoe was an octoroon, one-eighth Negro, and for all her fine ways she discovered she still had the status of a common slave. This is the main source of copious tears and troubles in the classic melodrama, The Octoroon, ...

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Punch

1861

BOOKINO OFFICE Alloy AMI Muh SAVING THE OCTOROON . UPON the couch she lies so pale' Tis but a graceful swoon ; What ? Poison ? -nay — ' tis sure a tale , He'll never thus our hearts assail , And kill the Octoroon !

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ISBN: UCSC:32106013839441

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LIFE

1961-02-24

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LIFE Magazine is the treasured photographic magazine that chronicled the 20th Century. It now lives on at LIFE.com, the largest, most amazing collection of professional photography on the internet. Users can browse, search and view photos of today’s people and events. They have free access to share, print and post images for personal use.
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Victorian Sensations

2006

KIMBERLY HARRISON MARY BRADDON'S The Octoroon; or, The Lily of Louisiana was serialized in John Maxwell's Halfpenny Journal from November 1861 to March 1862. The novel was one of the many that Braddon wrote anonymously for the penny ...

Author: Kimberly Harrison

Publisher: Ohio State University Press

ISBN: 9780814210314

Category: Literary Collections

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"Wildly popular with Victorian readers, sensation fiction was condemned by most critics for scandalous content and formal features that deviated from respectable Victorian realism. Victorian Sensations is the first collection to examine sensation fiction as a whole, showing it to push genre boundaries and resist easy classification. Comprehensive in scope, this collection includes twenty original essays employing various critical approaches to cover a range of topics that will interest many readers." "Essays are organized thematically into three sections: issues of genre; sensational representations of gender and sexuality; and the texts' complex readings of diverse social and cultural phenomena such as class, race, and empire. The introduction reviews the critical reception of sensation fiction to situate these new essays within a larger scholarly context."--BOOK JACKET.
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