Description:
The essays in this collection were selected from among papers delivered at the April 2002 Southeastern Theatre Conference s annual symposium held at Elon University in North Carolina. They address issues of race and ethnicity on the southern stage, in plays about the South, and in public performances, including minstrel shows, vaudeville, melodrama, puppetry, folk dramas, musical, social realism, and the public theaters of criminal justice and political propaganda.
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