As outdoor entertainment venues in American cities, pleasure gardens were public spaces where people could explore what it meant to be American. Stubbs examines how these venues helped form American identity and argues the gardens allowed for the exploration of what it meant to be American through performance, both on and off the stage.

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Naomi Stubbs is an Assistant Professor in the English Department at Laguardia Community College, City University of New York, USA.

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Book Title: Cultivating National Identity through Performance
Book Subtitle: American Pleasure Gardens and Entertainment
Authors: Naomi J. Stubbs
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137326874
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Palgrave Theatre & Performance Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 2013
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-32686-7Published: 20 September 2013
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-46002-1Published: 20 September 2013
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-32687-4Published: 18 September 2013
Series ISSN: 2947-5767
Series E-ISSN: 2947-5775
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 177
Topics: Social History, US History, Modern History, Theatre History, History of the Americas, Social Structure, Social Inequality

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

Front Matter

Introduction

Performing Nation: The Pleasure Garden as a Space for Defining America

Performing Place: The Rural/Urban Tension

Performing Class: The Challenge to and Reaffirmation of Class Divisions and Hierarchies

Performing Race: Native Americans and African Americans Within the Gardens

Beyond the Pleasure Garden

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