Staging Haiti in Nineteenth-Century America: Revolution, Race and Popular Performance

by Peter Reed

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1009100521
• ISBN13: 9781009100526
• Release Date: December 2022
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 231 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"