Street scenes : staging the self in immigrant New York, 1880-1924 / Esther Romeyn.

Author/creator Romeyn, Esther
Format Book
Publication InfoMinneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©2008.
Descriptionxxxi, 273 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Subjects
Minorities--New York (State). --New York. --Social conditions.
Minorities--New York (State). --New York. --Intellectual life.
Immigrants--New York (State). --New York. --Social conditions.
Immigrants--New York (State). --New York. --Intellectual life.
Performing arts--Social aspects. --New York (State). --New York. --History.
Self--New York (State). --New York. --History.
Ethnicity--New York (State). --New York. --History.
City and town life--New York (State). --New York. --History.
New York (N.Y.)--Ethnic relations.
New York (N.Y.)--Intellectual life.

Contents pt. 1. The city as theater : performativity and urban space -- The epistemology of the city -- Detecting, acting, and the hierarchy of the social body -- Crossing the Bowery : female slumming and the theater of urban space -- Eros and Americanization : the rise of David Levinsky, or the etiquette of race and sex -- pt. 2. Stages of identity : performing ethnic subjects -- Juggling identities : the case of an Italian American clown -- My other/my self : impersonation and the rehearsal of otherness -- The truth of racial signs : civilizing the Jewish comic -- Blackface, Jewface, whiteface : racial impersonation revisited.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 213-261) and index.
LCCN 2008014710
ISBN9780816645213 (hardcover : alk. paper)
ISBN0816645213 (hardcover : alk. paper)
ISBN9780816645213 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN0816645213 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN0816645221 (pbk.)
ISBN9780816645220 (pbk.)

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Joyner General Stacks F 128.9.A1 R66 2008 ✔ Available Place Hold