Staging Haiti in Nineteenth-Century America

Revolution, Race and Popular Performance

By:

Peter Reed

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Series:

Cambridge Studies in Modern Theatre

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American culture maintained a complicated relationship with Haiti from its revolutionary beginnings onward. In this study, Peter P. Reed reveals how Americans embodied and re-enacted their connections to Haiti through a wide array of performance forms. In the wake of Haiti's slave revolts in the 1790s, generations of actors, theatre professionals, spectators, and commentators looked to Haiti as a source of both inspiring freedom and vexing disorder. French colonial refugees, university students, Black theatre stars, blackface minstrels, abolitionists, and even writers such as Herman Melville all reinvented and restaged Haiti in distinctive ways. Reed demonstrates how Haiti's example of Black freedom and national independence helped redefine American popular culture, as actors and audiences repeatedly invoked and suppressed Haiti's revolutionary narratives, characters, and themes. Ultimately, Haiti shaped generations of performances, transforming America's understandings of race, power, freedom, and violence in ways that still reverberate today.

Author Biography:

Peter P. Reed is Associate Professor of Early American Literature at the University of Mississippi. He is the author of Rogue Performances (2009) as well as essays on Black Atlantic performance, theatre culture, and Haiti's impact on American culture.

Release date NZ

December 1st, 2022

Author

Peter Reed

Series

Cambridge Studies in Modern Theatre

Pages

231

Audience

Tertiary Education (US: College)

Illustrations

Worked examples or Exercises

Dimensions

160x235x18

ISBN-13

9781009100526

Product ID

35895503

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