.... By Michael J. Colacurcio. Notre Dame, Ind.: Univ. of Notre Dame Press. 2006. xix, 650 pp. $50.00. Early American Women Critics: Performance, Religion, Race. By Gay Gibson Cima. New York: Cambridge Univ. Press. 2006. xi, 241 pp. $85.00. Culture and Redemption: Religion, the Secular, and American...

..., in Alabama. There is need also to imagine Big Maybelle, the popular rhythm and blues singer Mabel Louise Smith, performing at the Metropolitan Opera. There is need to mix unfamil- iar categories—philosophical, religious, cultural, or musical—in the spirit of “Pigmeat” Markham, the African American...

... forgotten by history, offer a provocative new perspec- tive on early black performance and cultural production.3 Recovering and analyzing the records of the African Free School, an archive rich with the work of the first generation of African American children to inherit freedom in New York...

... the implicitly antipopulist logic of deliberative debate, appealing to a popular sovereignty here embodied by an increasingly raucous theater audience. Copyright © 2020 by Duke University Press 2020 theater audiences comedy democratic politics publics early American performance culture “We...

...Amy E. Hughes Show Town: Theater and Culture in the Pacific Northwest, 1890–1920 . By Holly George . Norman : Univ. of Oklahoma Press . 2016 . x, 266 pp. Cloth, $29.95 ; e-book available. Spectacular Men: Race, Gender, and Nation on the Early American Stage . By Sarah E...

...Andrea Stone Undisciplined: Science, Ethnography, and Personhood in the Americas, 1830–1940 . By Nihad M. Farooq New York : New York Univ. Press . 2016 . xiv, 343 pp. Cloth, $89.00 ; paper, $30.00 . Fugitive Science: Empiricism and Freedom in Early African American Culture...

...Timothy Marr Oriental Shadows: The Presence of the East in Early American Literature . By Egan Jim . Columbus : Ohio State Univ. Press . 2011 . xi , 167 pp. Cloth , $44.95 ; CD , $14.95 . American Orient: Imagining the East from the Colonial Era through the Twentieth...

..., sovereignty, and oppression between Jewish Americans and Native Americans. Rubenstein considers “Jewish redface” performances in the late nineteenth century, analyzes early- twentieth-century Yiddish translations of Indian chants, investigates Henry Roth’s complex relationship to Indianness...

... progress while, at the same time, reclaiming electricity as a form of material and rhetorical contestation. Lindsay Reckson is assistant professor of English at Haverford College, where she teaches and writes at the intersection of American literary and cultural studies, performance studies, media...

...- century African American and ethnic literatures with architectural history, material culture, politics, and race relations, while generally abstaining from engaging gender and sexuality. Doing the opposite, Tongson’s Relocations deploys queer of color, (sub)urban, cultural, performance, and ethnic...

... Oratory. Boston : Whittemore, Niles, and Hall . Rebhorn Matthew . 2012 . Pioneer Performances: Staging the Frontier. New York : Oxford Univ. Press . Reed Peter P. 2009 . Rogue Performances: Staging the Underclasses in Early American Theatre Culture. New York : Palgrave...

... of the performance (58–59). In makingits way to the American stage in the late 1820s, blackface inevitably sacrificed some of its intimacy, but reports of audience behavior confirm that early-nineteenth-century theater-goers considered...

... translations of linguistic and performative elements of “Arabo-Islamic culture” in ways that “highlight the stakes inherent in forming national identities through figural representation” (6–7). American Arabesque recontextualizes American transnationalism through a careful study of figurative uses...

...- century African American and ethnic literatures with architectural history, material culture, politics, and race relations, while generally abstaining from engaging gender and sexuality. Doing the opposite, Tongson’s Relocations deploys queer of color, (sub)urban, cultural, performance, and ethnic...

... . ix , 167 pp. $100.00 . © 2013 by Duke University Press 2013 Book Reviews Oriental Shadows: The Presence of the East in Early American Literature. By Jim Egan. Columbus: Ohio State Univ. Press. 2011. xi, 167 pp. Cloth, $44.95; CD, $14.95. American Orient: Imagining the East from...

...- century African American and ethnic literatures with architectural history, material culture, politics, and race relations, while generally abstaining from engaging gender and sexuality. Doing the opposite, Tongson’s Relocations deploys queer of color, (sub)urban, cultural, performance, and ethnic...

...- century African American and ethnic literatures with architectural history, material culture, politics, and race relations, while generally abstaining from engaging gender and sexuality. Doing the opposite, Tongson’s Relocations deploys queer of color, (sub)urban, cultural, performance, and ethnic...

...- century African American and ethnic literatures with architectural history, material culture, politics, and race relations, while generally abstaining from engaging gender and sexuality. Doing the opposite, Tongson’s Relocations deploys queer of color, (sub)urban, cultural, performance, and ethnic...

... culture inclusive of African American performers and composers. To read Johnson’s fictional autobiography as largely concerned with the aspirations, achievements, and disappointments of these musi...

... of The Making of Americans. In this chapter, the family chronicle and scientific analy- sis of human character give way to a kinaesthetic performance of the narrator’s pleasurable feeling of relation to the rhythmic repetitions of other people’s thoughts and words; through rhythmic sentences...