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English Language Notes (2019) 57 (2): 58–70.
Published: 01 October 2019
...Shelby Johnson Abstract Juliet Granville, the protagonist of Frances Burney’s novel The Wanderer (1814), enters the novel fleeing the French Revolution and disguised in blackface. This article argues that Juliet’s act of racial counterfeiting implicitly gestures toward the Haitian Revolution...
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English Language Notes (2011) 49 (1): 91–106.
Published: 01 March 2011
... th e r and a m o th e r o f A fro B razilian descent, becam e th e m o s t fa m o u s baiana o f the te a tro de revista, h a vin g m a de her firs t a p p e a ra n c e in 1921. H er m ix e d -ra c e lo o ks m e a n t th a t she d id n o t re q u ire th e blackface m a k e -u p th a t w a s w o r n...
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English Language Notes (2019) 57 (1): 72–81.
Published: 01 April 2019
... songs in blackface; stole food from his starving crewmates, who carried out the captain’s order to execute him for it; and ultimately furnished those crewmates with food in the form of his own corpse. Henry’s life was a violation of borders, whether territorial, political, social, or corporeal. His...
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English Language Notes (2002) 39 (4): 96–98.
Published: 01 June 2002
... is a Moor, and so black. Byron had been called a blackguard. Elledge is far from tentative: Byron would n o t have adopted blackface to deliver the M oore s lines, b u t th at he would have m ade the lin­ guistic as well as the ethical connection between the villain he im personated and the villainous nam...
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English Language Notes (2006) 44 (2): 223–225.
Published: 01 September 2006
..., David. "W hiteness and Ethnicity." Race Critical Theories: Text a n d Context. Philomena Essed and DavidTheo Goldberg, eds. Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2002. Rogin, Michael. Blackface, White Noise: Jewish Immigrants in the Ho l lywood Melting Pot. Berkeley: U niversity o f California Press, 1996. Ryan, Susan...
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English Language Notes (2019) 57 (1): 116–128.
Published: 01 April 2019
... driver” who “spoke English as well as any ordinary darky in Hartford.” 39 Observing the casual racism of Elsie’s account, it should not surprise us that passengers on Panama Pacific cruises participated in blackface pageantry and cross-class masquerades. 40 Figure 2. The SS Kroonland...
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English Language Notes (2019) 57 (2): 1–6.
Published: 01 October 2019
...), Shelby Johnson shows how—even though Frances Burney does not explicitly give the epochal historical event “overt narrative space”—the novel registers traces of the revolution in the form of the protagonist’s blackface performance and the African Mungo’s “stifled laughter.” “A novel of trace histories...
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English Language Notes (2018) 56 (2): 124–142.
Published: 01 October 2018
... lejos.” A full discussion of bufo and blackface theater in Cuba; its iteration and evolution in Tampa, in which the negrito character is a key distinction between the Cuban form and the new, evolving Tampa form; and the issue of white Cuban racism and discrimination toward black Cubans (and black...
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English Language Notes (2005) 42 (4): 83–95.
Published: 01 June 2005
... the novel to a three-hour spectacle simplified complex themes and characters. Blackface minstrel shows also appeared in the 1840s and con­ sisted of music, dancing, and verbal play, including the music-hall Mr. Interlocutor asking questions of Tambo and Bones. Even­ tually, blacks moved into these roles...
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English Language Notes (2011) 49 (1): 1–10.
Published: 01 March 2011
... rs o f th e citie s o f Rio and S a lv a d o r and m a de fa m o u s by C arm en M ira nda , w as both a fo rm o f blackface and a breaking o f the race barrier. She w rite s , "re p re s e n ta tio n s o f black id e n tity by black p e rfo rm e rs w e re o n ly re ndered a cce p t­ able to w h ite...
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English Language Notes (2010) 48 (1): 67–77.
Published: 01 March 2010
... critics. Barbara Webb, fo r example, S arah h en str a observes th e sh o p w o rn traces o f m in stre lsy and blackface p e rfo rm a n ce in Stein's tro p in g of the black singer and quotes Virgil Thom son's telling director's notes on the black actors: "I d o n 't really w a n t th e m to act. I w a n...