An edition of Street scenes (2008)

Street scenes

staging the self in immigrant New York, 1880-1924

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An edition of Street scenes (2008)

Street scenes

staging the self in immigrant New York, 1880-1924

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'Street Scenes' focuses on the intersection of modern city life and stage performance. From street life and slumming to vaudeville and early cinema, to Yiddish theatre and blackface comedy, Romeyn discloses racial comedy, passing, and masquerade as gestures of cultural translation.

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English
Pages
273

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Street scenes: staging the self in immigrant New York, 1880-1924
2008, University of Minnesota Press
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Table of 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.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Minneapolis

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
305.8009747/10903
Library of Congress
F128.9.A1 R66 2008, F128.9.A1R66 2008

The Physical Object

Pagination
p. cm.
Number of pages
273

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL16774541M
Internet Archive
streetscenesstag0000rome
ISBN 13
9780816645213
LCCN
2008014710
OCLC/WorldCat
222664850

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