1st Edition
Performing American Identity in Anti-Mormon Melodrama
By Megan Sanborn Jones
Copyright 2009
222 Pages
8 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
430 Pages
8 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
222 Pages
8 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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In the late nineteenth century, melodramas were spectacular entertainment for Americans. They were also a key forum in which elements of American culture were represented, contested, and inverted. This book focuses specifically on the construction of the Mormon villain as rapist, murderer, and Turk in anti-Mormon melodramas. These melodramas illustrated a particularly religious... Read more
Introduction: Outside/Inside America 1. The Christian Melodramatic Mode 2. Rapists: The Sexual Fantasy of Polygamy 3. Murderers: The Necessity of Honorable Violence 4. Turks: Appropriating Ethnicity. Conclusion: The Paradox of Identity. Notes. Bibliography. Index.
Biography
Megan Sanborn Jones is an assistant professor in the Theatre and Media Arts Department at Brigham Young University. Her research has been published in Theatre Journal, State of the Art, and The Journal of Mormon History. Her essay, "(Re)living the Pioneer Past" was the cover article of Theatre Topics (September 2006).
