Africans on Stage

Studies in Ethnological Show Business

Bernth Lindfors, Bernth Lindfors

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Indiana University Press
22 April 2000

Variety shows, music hall, cabaret; Cultural studies; Black & Asian studies; Anthropology

"...engaging, richly illustrated, and well-reserached.... Part anthology, cultural studies, history, journalism and political science, it... manages to consistently engage the reader..."" - African Studies Review

Lindfors's book shows how the 'edutainment' of the 19th century perpetuated an ignorance of Africa that makes it easy for whites to stay racist and difficult for blacks to gain an accurate and dignified understanding of their heritage.... an unusually strong, readable collection."" -Boston Book Review

Ethnological show business-that is, the displaying of foreign peoples for commercial and/or educational purposes-has a very long history. In the 19th and 20th centuries some of the most interesting individuals and groups exhibited in Europe and America came from Africa, or were said to come from Africa. African showpeople (real as well as counterfeit), managers and impresarios, and the audiences who came to gape are the featured attractions here-how they individually and in concert helped to shape Western perceptions of Africans."

Edited by: Bernth Lindfors, Bernth Lindfors
Imprint: Indiana University Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 235mm, Width: 155mm, Spine: 19mm
Weight: 662g
ISBN: 9780253212450
ISBN 10: 0253212456
Pages: 320
Publication Date: 22 April 2000
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

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

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).