| 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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@article{1320804,
author = {Kačer, Tomáš},
article_location = {Hradec Králové},
article_number = {1},
keywords = {Dion Boucicault; The Octoroon; Slavery; Abolition},
language = {eng},
issn = {2336-3347},
journal = {Hradec Králové Journal of Anglophone Studies},
title = {Dion Boucicault’s The Octoroon as a Case for Stirring up the Debate over the Abolition of Slavery},
volume = {2},
year = {2015}
}
TY - JOUR
ID - 1320804
AU - Kačer, Tomáš
PY - 2015
TI - Dion Boucicault’s The Octoroon as a Case for Stirring up the Debate over the Abolition of Slavery
JF - Hradec Králové Journal of Anglophone Studies
VL - 2
IS - 1
SP - 26-32
EP - 26-32
PB - Department of English Language and Literature, Faculty od Education, University of Hradec Králové
SN - 23363347
KW - Dion Boucicault
KW - The Octoroon
KW - Slavery
KW - Abolition
N2 - 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.
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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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