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Kinsley, Elisabeth H.

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This Island's Mine: Enacting Shakespeare, Race, and U.S. Belonging in Progressive Era Manhattan.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	This Island's Mine: Enacting Shakespeare, Race, and U.S. Belonging in Progressive Era Manhattan./
Author:	Kinsley, Elisabeth H.
Description:	270 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 76-10(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International76-10A(E).
Subject:	Rhetoric. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3705287
ISBN:	9781321781915

This Island's Mine: Enacting Shakespeare, Race, and U.S. Belonging in Progressive Era Manhattan.
Kinsley, Elisabeth H.

This Island's Mine: Enacting Shakespeare, Race, and U.S. Belonging in Progressive Era Manhattan. - 270 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 76-10(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Northwestern University, 2015.

The decades neighboring 1900 saw a period of singular demographic and economic change in U.S. cities that incited widespread uncertainty about the terms of national identity and belonging---uncertainty deeply rooted in matters of race and class. At the same time, American publics increasingly associated cultural taste with social hierarchy, and as a result, the nation's theatres stratified along class lines. Set in this historical context, "This Island's Mine" considers the relationship between Shakespeare as a touchstone of dominant U.S. culture on the one hand, and, on the other, productions of Shakespeare in New York's German, Yiddish, and Italian immigrant communities. Although other scholars have shown how American elites used Shakespeare at the turn of the twentieth century to shape and secure white American identity and authority, fewer have studied the ways in which Shakespeare---as an ideological category and a performance repertoire---formed a prime social arena for group intersections and interactions during this period. This study analyzes records of historical scenarios in which Anglo-identified people, perspectives, and experiences intersected with non-Anglo people, perspectives, and experiences via Shakespeare in Progressive era New York, the entry city for most U.S. immigrant groups and the vanguard of U.S. stage culture at this time. Such Shakespearean scenarios include performances at Lower East Side reform organizations, immigrant troupes' staged translations and adaptations of Shakespeare's plays, and polyglot productions in Broadway theatres. This analysis shows that Shakespeare was not simply a source of cultural capital, cultural authority, or cultural resistance for Americans in the 1890s and early 1900s but was also a site of cultural exchange. As such, Shakespeare theatre spurred nuanced and improvisatory social encounters between New York's empowered and marginalized groups---encounters that intermingled different turn-of-the-twentieth-century communities' ideas about what Shakespeare, race, and national belonging should and could mean for Americans.

ISBN: 9781321781915Subjects--Topical Terms:

516647
Rhetoric.

This Island's Mine: Enacting Shakespeare, Race, and U.S. Belonging in Progressive Era Manhattan.
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