Dion Boucicault’s The Octoroon as a Case for Stirring up the
Debate over the Abolition of Slavery

J 2015

Dion Boucicault’s The Octoroon as a Case for Stirring up the Debate over the Abolition of Slavery

KAČER, Tomáš

Základní údaje

Originální název

Dion Boucicault’s The Octoroon as a Case for Stirring up the Debate over the Abolition of Slavery

Autoři

KAČER, Tomáš

Vydání

Hradec Králové Journal of Anglophone Studies, Hradec Králové, Department of English Language and Literature, Faculty od Education, University of Hradec Králové, 2015, 2336-3347

Další údaje

Jazyk

angličtina

Typ výsledku

Článek v odborném periodiku

Obor

60206 Specific literatures

Stát vydavatele

Česká republika

Utajení

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Kód RIV

RIV/00216224:14210/15:00085212

Organizační jednotka

Filozofická fakulta

Klíčová slova anglicky

Dion Boucicault; The Octoroon; Slavery; Abolition

Štítky

rivok

Příznaky

Recenzováno

Změněno: 23. 2. 2018 14:15, Mgr. Jana Pelclová, Ph.D.

Anotace

V originále

The Octoroon (premiered in New York in 1859) by the Irish, and later naturalized American playwright Dion Boucicault, is in principle a harmless melodrama—save for a potentially explosive element, an interracial couple. Its staging directly before the outbreak of the US Civil War contributed to stirring up the debate over the abolition of slavery (together with the then comparably popular dramatizations of Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin, particularly the one by George L. Aiken) and conversely, this element also called for various textual adjustments. The interracial motif had to be suppressed for American audiences, while the London audience demanded a happy ending—and thus a reunion of the white young man and the one-eight former slave. The paper investigates the aesthetic, political and personal reasons why he originally resisted to change the play into a melodrama with a happy ending.

Návaznosti

MUNI/FR/1638/2014, interní kód MU

Název: Dějiny amerického dramatu a divadla (Akronym: Dějiny amerického dramatu a divadla)

Investor: Masarykova univerzita, Dějiny amerického dramatu a divadla

Citovat

KAČER, Tomáš. Dion Boucicault’s The Octoroon as a Case for Stirring up the Debate over the Abolition of Slavery. Hradec Králové Journal of Anglophone Studies. Hradec Králové: Department of English Language and Literature, Faculty od Education, University of Hradec Králové, 2015, roč. 2, č. 1, s. 26-32. ISSN 2336-3347.

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KAČER, Tomáš. Dion Boucicault’s The Octoroon as a Case for Stirring up the Debate over the Abolition of Slavery. \textit{Hradec Králové Journal of Anglophone Studies}. Hradec Králové: Department of English Language and Literature, Faculty od Education, University of Hradec Králové, 2015, roč.~2, č.~1, s.~26-32. ISSN~2336-3347.

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