Racechanges
White Skin, Black Face in American Culture
Published on 29. June 2000
Book
Paperback/Softback
356 pages
978-0-19-513418-6 (ISBN)
Description
This book examines racial impersonations - i.e., blackface - in modern American film, fiction, poetry, painting, photography, and journalism. Gubar shows how the white popular imagination has evolved through a series of oppositional identities that are dependent on the idea of black others. She draws from an extensive range of illustrative work, with examples from high and low culture, from turn-of-the century to present day.
Reviews / Votes
Both relevant and timely ... offers a welcome insight into the complex and controversial world of minstrelsy, or cross-racial impersonation ... fascinating source materials ... a fascinating study of racialised representations and imitation. * Nations and Nationalism * Gubar presents an intensely thought provoking investigation of the cultural space inhabited by artists, writers and entertainers whose work, intentionally or not, challenges the notion of a fixed opposition between black and white. * American Studies *More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
numerous halftones
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
499 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-513418-6 (9780195134186)
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E-Book
04/2000
1st Edition
OUP eBook
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10/1997
Oxford University Press Inc
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Person
Susan Gubar is Distinguished Professor of English at Indiana University. She has co-authored and co-edited a range of books with Sandra Gilbert, from The Madwoman in the Attic (a runner-up for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award) to The Norton Anthology of Literature by Women.