Southern stages : space and memory in US performance / Chandra Owenby Hopkins.
| Author/creator | Hopkins, Chandra Owenby, 1981- author. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication | Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, [2025] |
| Description | 209 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. |
| Subjects |
| Physical medium | illustration |
| Series | Studies in theatre history and culture Studies in theatre history and culture. |
| Contents | Introduction : space, memory, and performance in the American South -- Theatrical longings and plantation spaces : Fanny Kemble's Journal of a residence on a Georgian plantation, 1838-1839 -- Bodied objects : the whip in George Aiken's Uncle Tom's cabin and Matthew Lopez's The whipping man -- A daughter of the Confederacy : monuments and the American stage -- Memorializing the unmarked : Georgia Douglas Johnson, lynching sites, and the National Memorial for Peace and Justice -- Remembering a play about remembering : the American South and native guard -- Epilogue : resistance and revision : Dread Scott's slave rebellion reenactment. |
| Abstract | "Description: What if space could remember as well as people? What histories, hidden and visible, might be held in space? Southern Stages offers an engaging new model for considering how memory, imagination, and performance intersect in spaces that have shaped hundreds of years of American history. Beginning with the space of the southern plantation, this book plumbs the depths of key sites for the ways in which memory has shaped spaces central to the history of the American South including monuments and the theatrical stage. With chapters ranging across sites, memories, and performances that have helped to perpetuate "memories" of the Old South, this book reveals how memories endow space with layers of meaning, amounting to a pastiche, i.e., a jumbled assembly that offers congruence without consistency. Through specific sites and objects that have been critical to the meaning-making of the Old South including the regional theatre stage, the coastal plantation, the whip, the monument, and the lynching site, Southern Stages asks readers to see how material, physical realities have constructed affective meaning, including the downtown square and the cemetery. Intertextual and richly layered, this work offers new ways to explore the cultural performances and key spaces of the American South that hold memories of the past and shape the present across the United States"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Issued in other form | Online version http://id.loc.gov/entities/relationships/onlineversion Hopkins, Chandra Owenby, 1981- Southern stages Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, 2025 9781685970369 |
| Genre/form | Criticism, interpretation, etc. |
| Genre/form | Literary criticism. |
| Genre/form | Literary criticism. |
| Genre/form | Critiques littéraires. |
| LCCN | 2025006421 |
| ISBN | 9781685970352 paperback |
| ISBN | 1685970354 paperback |
| ISBN | ebook |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Joyner | NC Stacks | PS261.H674 2025 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |