staging the self in immigrant New York, 1880-1924 /
Esther Romeyn
Minneapolis :
University of Minnesota Press,
c2008
xxxi, 273 p. :
ill. ;
23 cm
Includes bibliographical references (p. 213-261) and index
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
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City and town life-- New York (State)-- New York-- History
Ethnicity-- New York (State)-- New York-- History
Immigrants-- New York (State)-- New York-- Intellectual life
Immigrants-- New York (State)-- New York-- Social conditions
Minorities-- New York (State)-- New York-- Intellectual life
Minorities-- New York (State)-- New York-- Social conditions
Performing arts-- Social aspects-- New York (State)-- New York-- History