Rewriting the genealogy of minstrelsy for modernity: “Cry and sing, walk and rage, scream and dance”
W. E. B. Du Bois’s Dark Princess (1928) pointedly uses Spirituals and dandyism to interrogate cultural hierarchies. This essay highlights the shared genealogy between early twentieth-century African American writing and two bifurcating branches of nineteenth-century dandyism: the European tradition...
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Johns Hopkins University Press
2015
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