Daphne A BrooksBodies in Dissent
Spectacular Performances of Race and Freedom, 1850-1910
Daphne A. Brooks is Professor of African American Studies, Theater Studies, and American Studies at Yale University. She is the author of Jeff Buckley’s Grace.
Acknowledgements ix
1. Our Bodies, Our/Selves 14
Racial Phantasmagoria and Cultural Struggle
2. The Escape Artist 66
Henry Box Brown, Black Abolitionist Performance, and Moving Panoramas of
Slavery
3. “The Deeds Done in My Body” 131
Performance, Black(ened) Women, and Adah Isaacs Menken in the Racial
Imaginary
4. Alien/Nation 207
Re-Imagining the Black Body (Politic) in Williams and Walker’s In Dahomey
5. Divas and Diasporic Consciousness 281
Song, Dance, and New Negro Womanhood in the Veil
Epilogue 343
Theatre, Black Women, and Change
Notes 349
Bibliography 417
Index 455
