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

• Main Author: Hornback, Robert (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History
• Subjects: Theater-History.; Theater.; Imperialism.; Theatre History.; National/Regional Theatre and Performance.; Imperialism and Colonialism.

This book traces blackface types from ancient masks of grinning Africans and phallus-bearing Roman fools through to comedic medieval devils, the pan-European black-masked Titivillus and Harlequin, and racial impersonation via stereotypical 'black speech' explored in the Renaissance by Lope...

Table of Contents:

• 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.