Blurring the Boundaries of Gendered Encounters: Moorish Dancing Girls in Nineteenth and Early Twentieth-Century American Fair Exhibitions
Moroccan dancing women appeared as entertainers in 19th and 20th-century American fair expositions. Their physical and epistemological journeys and their performances on the fair midways have been largely missing from the histories of the Moroccan and American entertainment industries. Their experie...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Brill
2014
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Hawwa
Year: 2014, Volume: 11, Issue: 2/3, Pages: 133-159 |
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Moorish dancing women
oriental performance
gender and performance
American world’s fair expositions
orientalism
midways
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