Africans on Stage: Studies in Ethnological Show Business
Author:   Bernth Lindfors ,  Bernth Lindfors
Publisher:   Indiana University Press
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9780253334688


Pages:   320
Publication Date:   22 April 2000
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Bernth Lindfors ,  Bernth Lindfors
Publisher:   Indiana University Press
Imprint:   Indiana University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 2.60cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.789kg
ISBN:  

9780253334688


ISBN 10:   0253334683
Pages:   320
Publication Date:   22 April 2000
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Introduction Zoe Strother, Display of the Body Hottentot Bernth Lindfors, Charles Dickens and the Zulus Shane Peacock, Africa Meets the Great Farini Veit Erlmann, 'Spectatorial Lust': The African Choir in England, 1891-1893 Robert W. Rydell, 'Darkest Africa': African Shows at America's World's Fairs, 1893-1940 Jeffrey Green, A Strange Revelation in Humankind: Six Congo Pygmies in Britain, 1905-1907 Harvey Blume, Ota Benga and the Barnum Perplex Neil Parsons, 'Clicko,' Franz Taaibosch, South African Bushman Entertainer in England, France, Cuba, and the United States, 1908-1940

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Bernth Lindfors is Professor of English and African Literatures at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the founding editor of the journal of Research in African Literature and has written and edited a number of books on African verbal arts, the most recent being African Textualities: Texts, Pre-texts, and Contexts of African Literature (1997).

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