Spectacles of reform :: theater and activism in nineteenth-century America /

This book explores how and why spectacle is a crucial component of the reform apparatus and a defining characteristic of American activism in general, whether highly organized or quietly quotidian. It advocates for a consideration of spectacle as methodology: a unique system of communication, employ...

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1. Verfasser: Hughes, Amy (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2012]
Schriftenreihe:ACLS Humanities E-Book.
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Zusammenfassung:This book explores how and why spectacle is a crucial component of the reform apparatus and a defining characteristic of American activism in general, whether highly organized or quietly quotidian. It advocates for a consideration of spectacle as methodology: a unique system of communication, employed in myriad context, that rehearses and sustains conceptions of race, gender, and class in extremely powerful ways. Spectacle capitalizes on the sensational and the profane, embracing what is deliberately hidden or secretly imagined and giving it material form.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (x, 248 pages) : illustrations
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-234) and index.
ISBN:9780472028894
0472028898
1283941600
9781283941600

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