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Cultivating National Identity through Performance

American Pleasure Gardens and Entertainment

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  • © 2013

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Authors:
  1. Naomi J. Stubbs
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Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History (PSTPH)

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. Introduction

    • Naomi J. Stubbs
    Pages 1-20

  3. Performing Nation: The Pleasure Garden as a Space for Defining America

    • Naomi J. Stubbs
    Pages 21-41

  4. Performing Place: The Rural/Urban Tension

    • Naomi J. Stubbs
    Pages 43-63

  5. Performing Class: The Challenge to and Reaffirmation of Class Divisions and Hierarchies

    • Naomi J. Stubbs
    Pages 65-85

  6. Performing Race: Native Americans and African Americans Within the Gardens

    • Naomi J. Stubbs
    Pages 87-107

  7. Beyond the Pleasure Garden

    • Naomi J. Stubbs
    Pages 109-130

  8. Back Matter

    Pages 131-177
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As outdoor entertainment venues in American cities, pleasure gardens were public spaces where people could explore what it meant to be American. Stubbs examines how these venues helped form American identity and argues the gardens allowed for the exploration of what it meant to be American through performance, both on and off the stage.

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Naomi Stubbs is an Assistant Professor in the English Department at Laguardia Community College, City University of New York, USA.

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