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A poignant affirmative history of early African entertainments in Europe and the United States and an important contribution to studies of African performative agency at a time in which it was severely constrained both corporeally and discursively. --Tejumola Olaniyan, series editor

""A poignant affirmative history of early African entertainments in Europe and the United States and an important contribution to studies of African performative agency at a time in which it was severely constrained both corporeally and discursively.""--Tejumola Olaniyan, series editor ""Lindfors's deliberately thin theorizing of the archives shows that Africans were present and alive as capable humans even during the most clamorous European denials of such.""--Adélékè Adéèkó, Ohio State University ""This book will surprise you and may shock you. Its fascinating case studies reveal how Africans and people of color were exhibited as freaks, or became genuine entertainers enjoying their craft, in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Europe and America. It is also a serious study showing how 'racial science' was popularized to justify to the European and American masses the conquest and subjugation of Africa and Africans.""--Neil Parsons, author of Clicko the Dancing Bushman ""Highly recommended, undergraduates though faculty; general readers.""--Choice

A poignant affirmative history of early African entertainments in Europe and the United States and an important contribution to studies of African performative agency at a time in which it was severely constrained both corporeally and discursively. Tejumola Olaniyan, series editor

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Bernth Lindfors is a professor emeritus of English and African literatures at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the author of a number of books on African literature and folklore, including Early Soyinka (2008) and Early Achebe (2009).

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