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Performing Menken: Adah Isaacs Menken and the Birth of American Celebrity Sentilles, Renee M. (Case Western Reserve University, Ohio)
Performing Menken: Adah Isaacs Menken and the Birth of American Celebrity
Sentilles, Renee M. (Case Western Reserve University, Ohio)
Performing Menken, first published in 2003, uses the life experiences of controversial actress and poet Adah Isaacs Menken to examine the culture of the Civil War period. It discusses Menken's racial and ethnic claims and her performance of gender and sexuality in the context of the social categories of her day.
326 pages, 15 b/w illus.
| Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
| Released | July 19, 2012 |
| ISBN13 | 9780521527606 |
| Publishers | Cambridge University Press |
| Pages | 326 |
| Dimensions | 151 × 229 × 24 mm · 494 g |
| Language | English |