Morosetti, Tiziana. 2021. The Language of Blackness: Representations of Africans and African-Americans on the British Stage After Uncle Tom’s Cabin. In: Tiziana Morosetti and Osita Okagbue, eds. The Palgrave Handbook of Theatre and Race. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave, pp. 369-390. ISBN 9783030439569 [Book Section]

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This chapter examines representations of blackness on the Victorian stage that follow the publication (and adaptation for the stage) of Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852), focusing on the legacy of the ‘minstrelised’ stereotype promoted by blackface minstrelsy and further popularized by Uncle-Tom images. The connection between black characters and the ‘dialect’ they are made to speak on stage will be especially explored with reference to Lemon and Taylor’s drama Slave Life; or, Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852) and William Brough’s farce Those Dear Blacks! (1852), as well as theatrical Robinsonades from the second half of the century that reveal an influence of the ‘minstrelised’ stereotype, as well as references to Uncle Tom’s Cabin.

Item Type:	Book Section
Identification Number (DOI):	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-43957-6_20
Additional Information:	Part of the research leading to these results has received funding from the People Programme (Marie Curie Actions) of the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007–2013) under REA grant agreement no. 299000.
Dates:	Date Event 21 April 2021 Published
Item ID:	35668
Date Deposited:	18 Mar 2024 10:45
Last Modified:	18 Mar 2024 10:45
URI:	https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/35668

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