Racism and Early Blackface Comic Traditions: From the Old World to the New

By Robert Hornback

Book Overview

1.Introduction: Recovering the Contexts of Early Modern Proto-Racism.2. Harlequin as Theatergram: Transmitting the Time-Worn Black Mask, Ancient to Antebellum.3. Beyond Good and Evil Symbolism: Allegories and Metaphysics of Blackfaced Folly.4. From Allegorical Type and Sartorial Satire to Minstrel Dandy Stereotype and Blackface-on-Black Violence.5. Sambo Dialects: Defining National Language Boundaries via Early Representations of Stereotypically Black Speech.6. Blackface in Shakespeare: Challenging Racial Allegories of Folly and Speech.7. Shakespeare in Blackface: Black Shakespeareans vs. Minstrel Burlesques, 1821-1844.8. A New Theory of Pre-Modern or Proto-Racism.9. White Nationalism, Trolling Humor as Propaganda, and the "Renaissance" of Christian Racism in the Age of Trump.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3319780476
• ISBN13: 9783319780474
• Release Date: July 2018
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 324 Pages
• Weight: 1.23 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.8" x 8.3"