Performing Menken

Adah Isaacs Menken and the Birth of American Celebrity

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Renee M. Sentilles

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Performing Menken uses the life experiences of controversial actress and poet Adah Isaacs Menken to examine the culture of the Civil War period. Menken managed to portray herself as both respectable and daring, claiming for herself various (differing) racial and ethnic identities. Playing male roles on stage, she became the reigning femme fatale. Yet she was also known as an intellectual, publishing poetry and essays. She shared friendships with the greatest writers of her time, including Walt Whitman, Mark Twain, and Alexandre Dumas, pere. Performing Menken also looks at what Menken's choices reveal about her period. It explores the roots of the cult of celebrity that emerged from the crucible of war. While discussing Menken's racial and ethnic claims and her performance of gender and sexuality, Performing Menken focuses on contemporary use of social categories to explain patterns in America's past and considers why such categories appear to remain important.

Release date NZ

May 26th, 2003

Author

Renee M. Sentilles

Audiences

Professional & Vocational
Tertiary Education (US: College)

Pages

326

Dimensions

152x229x22

ISBN-13

9780521820707

Product ID

1966286

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