Type of Document	Thesis
Author	Metzler, Jessica
URN	etd-01192006-155938
Title	Genuine Spectacle: Sliding Positionality in the Works of Pauline E. Hopkins, Zora Neale Hurston, Langston Hughes, and Spike Lee
Degree	Master of Arts
Department	English, Department of
Advisory Committee	Advisor Name Title W. T. Lhamon Committee Chair Leigh Edwards Committee Member Tomeiko Ashford Committee Member
Keywords	African American Film African American Theater 20th Century Film Harlem Renaissance 19th Century Theater Colored American Magazine
Date of Defense	2006-01-18
Availability	unrestricted
Abstract This thesis, "Genuine Spectacle: Sliding Positionality in the Work of Pauline E. Hopkins, Zora Neale Hurston, Langston Hughes, and Spike Lee," addresses the position of Hopkins’s 1879 musical, Slaves’ Escape; or the Underground Railroad, Hurston and Hughes’s unproduced 1931 play, Mule Bone: A Comedy of Negro Life, and Lee’s 2000 film, Bamboozled within what scholar W. T. Lhamon has dubbed the "blackface lore cycle." Viewing these works within the context of this cycle, which swings from virulently racist caricatures of blackness to obsequious imitation and vice versa, allows for an analysis of the sliding cultural currency given to minstrel stereotypes from the late nineteenth century to the present.
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