Racial Geometries Of The Black Atlantic, Asian Pacific And American Theatre (studies In International Performance)

An exciting new work on how black and Asian racial structures were woven together within US theatrical practices in the run up to the Second World War, Steen uses this history to model how we might use performance histories to more carefully assess how racial formation occurs on the boundaries between racial groups in an international context. Front Matter....Pages i-xiv How Uncle Tom’s Cabin Killed the King of Siam....Pages 1-32 Passing Between Nations: Racial Impersonation and Transnational Affiliation....Pages 33-64 Melancholy Bodies: Eugene O’Neill, Imperial Critique, and Irish Assimilation....Pages 65-102 American Progress: The Paradox of Internationalism....Pages 103-136 The Geometries of Swing: A Black Pacific and The Swing Mikados....Pages 137-163 Coda: The Black Face of US Imperialism....Pages 164-168 Back Matter....Pages 169-209 Drawing on original archival research, Racial Geometries examines popular forms of performance -- from musical theatre and minstrelsy to non-theatrical forms like Chinatown tourism -- to expose how American racial formation between the two World Wars was not determined only within national borders but traded on and influenced international dynamics --Provided by publisher.