The Showman and the Slave: Race, Death, and Memory in Barnum’s AmericaHarvard University Press, 9. okt. 2001 - 281 strani In this compelling story about one of the nineteenth century's most famous Americans, Benjamin Reiss uses P. T. Barnum's Joice Heth hoax to examine the contours of race relations in the antebellum North. Barnum's first exhibit as a showman, Heth was an elderly enslaved woman who was said to be the 161-year-old former nurse of the infant George Washington. Seizing upon the novelty, the newly emerging commercial press turned her act--and especially her death--into one of the first media spectacles in American history. |
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The Dark Subject | 1 |
Possession | 13 |
The Celebrated Curiosity | 28 |
Private Acts Public Memories | 52 |
Sacred and Profane | 71 |
Culture Wars | 90 |
Love Automata and India Rubber | 106 |
Spectacle | 126 |
Authenticity and Commodity | 143 |
Exposure and Mastery | 159 |
Erasure | 183 |
A Speculative Biography | 211 |
Notes | 227 |
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