Racial Geometries of the Black Atlantic, Asian Pacific and American Theatre

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiv

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2. How Uncle Tom’s Cabin Killed the King of Siam

   • Shannon Steen

   Pages 1-32

3. Passing Between Nations: Racial Impersonation and Transnational Affiliation

   • Shannon Steen

   Pages 33-64

4. Melancholy Bodies: Eugene O’Neill, Imperial Critique, and Irish Assimilation

   • Shannon Steen

   Pages 65-102

5. American Progress: The Paradox of Internationalism

   • Shannon Steen

   Pages 103-136

6. The Geometries of Swing: A Black Pacific and The Swing Mikados

   • Shannon Steen

   Pages 137-163

7. Coda: The Black Face of US Imperialism

   • Shannon Steen

   Pages 164-168

8. Back Matter

   Pages 169-209

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An exciting new work on how black and Asian racial structures were woven together within US theatrical practices in the run up to the Second World War, Steen uses this history to model how we might use performance histories to more carefully assess how racial formation occurs on the boundaries between racial groups in an international context.

• America
• film
• history of theatre
• theatre

SHANNON STEEN is assistant professor of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies at the University of California at Berkeley, USA, where she is also faculty for the program in American Studies. She is the co-editor with Heike Raphael-Hernandez of AfroAsian Encounters: History, Culture, Politics. Prior to her appointment at Berkeley, she served as faculty in the English Department at Northwestern University.

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