Early African entertainments abroad : from the Hottentot Venus to Africa's first Olympians / Bernth Lindfors.

In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries African and pseudo-African performers were displayed as curiosities throughout Europe and America. Appearing in circuses, ethnographic exhibitions, and traveling shows, these individuals and troupes drew large crowds. As Bernth Lindfors shows, the show...

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Main Author: Lindfors, Bernth (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Madison, Wisconsin : The University of Wisconsin Press, [2014]
Series:Africa and the diaspora.
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