From blackface to 'genuine negroes': Nineteenth-century minstrelsy and the icon of the 'Negro'

Theatre Research International

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 17-23

  Anderson, Lisa M ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 61449146228     PISSN: 03078833     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0307883300012669     Document Type: Review

References (10)

1. Robert C. Toll Blacking Up: The Minstrel Show in Nineteenth-Century America (New York: Oxford University Press, 1974)
2. Eleanor W. Traylor, 'Two Afro-American Contributions to Dramatic Form', The Theatre of Black Americans, ed. Errol Hill (New York: Applause Theatre Book Publishers, 1987), p. 49
3. Marshall Stearns & Jean Stearns, Jazz Dance: The Story of American Vernacular Dance (New York: Schirmer Books, 1968), pp. 24-7
4. Carl Bryan Holmberg and Gilbert D. Schneider, 'Daniel Decatur Emmett's Stump Sermons: Genuine Afro-American Culture, Language and Rhetoric in the Negro Minstrel Show', Journal of Popular Culture 19.4 (1986), pp. 27-37
5. William Wells Brown, Escape, or a Leap to Freedom, in The Roots of African American Drama, ed. Leo Hamalian and James V. Hatch (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1991), p. 67. First published in 1849
6. Gary D. Engle, This Grotesque Essence: Plays from the American Minstrel Stage (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1978), pp. 34-5
7. Ike Simond, Old Slack's Reminiscence and Pocket History of the Colored Profession from 1865-1891 (Bowling Green, Ohio: Bowling Green University Popular Press, 1974 [reprint from Harvard Theatre Collection]), pp. 15-18
8. James V. Hatch, 'Some African Influences on the Afro-American Theatre', The Theatre of Black Americans, ed. Hill, p. 27
9. Loften Mitchell, Black Drama: The Story of the American Negro in the Theatre (New York: Hawthorne Books, 1967), pp. 46-7
10. Gates's The Signifyin' Monkey: A Theory of Afro-American Literary Criticism (New York: Oxford University Press, 1988)