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How ethnological show business shaped European and American perceptions of Africa and Africans.

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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

Africans on Stage

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      Publisher: MH - Indiana University Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 4/22/2000 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780253212450, 978-0253212450
      ISBN10: 0253212456

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      How ethnological show business shaped European and American perceptions of Africa and Africans.

      Table of Contents

      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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