Charles Parsloe's Chinese fetish: An example of yellowface performance in nineteenth-century American melodrama

Theatre Journal

Volumn 56, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 627-651

  Metzger, Sean ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 70449786556     PISSN: 01922882     EISSN: 1086332X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/tj.2004.0174     Document Type: Article

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