{"product_id":"blackface-cuba-1840-1895-hardcover","title":"Blackface Cuba, 1840-1895 - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJill Lane\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBlackface Cuba, 1840-1895 Jill Lane \"A model for theatre scholarship on racial impersonation.\"--\u003ci\u003eTheatre Journal\u003c\/i\u003e \"Blackface performance, treated in U.S. scholarship as if it were an exclusively national phenomenon, has not until now been the subject of an extended study for Cuba, where it was the main vehicle for shaping a sense of hybridity. Lane shows that performance reiterated the contradiction between blacks and whites while trying to overcome it. From acting up to impersonation, Lane links some liberating practices of anticolonialism in the Americas with the binding mechanisms for a new national unity.\"--Doris Sommer, Harvard University \"A valuable source on nineteenth-century Cuban cultural manifestations. Highly recommended.\"--\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eBlackface Cuba, 1840-1895\u003c\/i\u003e offers a critical history of the relation between racial impersonation, national sentiment, and the emergence of an anticolonial public sphere in nineteenth-century Cuba. Through a study of Cuba's vernacular theatre, the \u003ci\u003eteatro bufo\u003c\/i\u003e, and of related forms of music, dance, and literature, Lane argues that blackface performance was a primary site for the development of \u003ci\u003emestizaje\u003c\/i\u003e, Cuba's racialized national ideology, in which African and Cuban become simultaneously mutually exclusive and mutually formative. Popular with white Cuban-born audiences during the period of Cuba's anticolonial wars, the \u003ci\u003eteatro bufo\u003c\/i\u003e was celebrated for combining Spanish elements with supposedly African rhythms and choreography. Its wealth of short comic plays developed a well-loved repertory of blackface stock characters, from the \u003ci\u003enegrito\u003c\/i\u003e to the \u003ci\u003emulata\u003c\/i\u003e, played by white actors in blackface. Lane contends that these practices were embraced by white audiences as especially national forms that helped define Cuba's opposition to Spain, at the same time that they secured prevailing racial hierarchies for a future Cuban nation. Comparing the \u003ci\u003eteatro bufo\u003c\/i\u003e to related forms of racial representation, particularly those created by black Cubans in theatres and in the press, Lane analyzes performance as a form of social contestation through which an emergent Cuban national community struggled over conflicting visions of race and nation. \u003cb\u003eJill Lane\u003c\/b\u003e teaches theatre studies and American studies at Yale University. Rethinking the Americas 2005 288 pages 6 x 9 ISBN 978-0-8122-3867-9 Cloth $59.95s  39.00 World Rights Literature, African-American\/African Studies, Latin American\/Caribbean Studies Short copy: \u003ci\u003eBlackface Cuba, 1840-1895\u003c\/i\u003e offers a critical history of the relation between racial impersonation, national sentiment, and an anticolonial public sphere in nineteenth-century Cuba.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eJill Lane teaches theatre studies and American studies at Yale University.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 288\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.1 x 9.2 x 6.3 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 22, 2005\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42722614902847,"sku":"9780812238679","price":128.44,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/eeaac05f46e63280261d83f464683ca0.webp?v=1765096351","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/blackface-cuba-1840-1895-hardcover","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}