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Performing Menken

Adah Isaacs Menken and the Birth of American Celebrity

Performing Menken( )
Author: Sentilles, Renée M.
Sentilles, Renée M.
ISBN:978-1-139-33985-8
Publication Date:Jan 2003
Publisher:Cambridge University Press
Book Format:Digital download and online
List Price:USD $68.00
Book Description:

Performing Menken, first published in 2003, uses the life experiences of controversial actress and poet Adah Isaacs Menken to examine the culture of the Civil War period. It discusses Menken's racial and ethnic claims and her performance of gender and sexuality in the context of the social categories of her day.




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