The Octoroon

The Octoroon
Title The Octoroon PDF eBook
Author Dion Boucicault
Publisher Litres
Pages 91
Release 2021-03-16
Genre Fiction
ISBN 5040658508

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An Octoroon

An Octoroon
Title An Octoroon PDF eBook
Author Branden Jacobs-Jenkins
Publisher Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
Pages 62
Release 2015-05-15
Genre Performing Arts
ISBN 082223226X

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Judge Peyton is dead and his plantation Terrebonne is in financial ruins. Peyton’s handsome nephew George arrives as heir apparent and quickly falls in love with Zoe, a beautiful octoroon. But the evil overseer M’Closky has other plans—for both Terrebonne and Zoe. In 1859, a famous Irishman wrote this play about slavery in America. Now an American tries to write his own.

Black is the New White

Black is the New White
Title Black is the New White PDF eBook
Author Nakkiah Lui
Publisher Allen & Unwin
Pages 139
Release 2019-02-04
Genre Drama
ISBN 1760870420

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'Nakkiah Lui's writing is, as always, on point: hold-your-belly funny; pumping with politics that prompts visible discomfort.' Maxine Beneba Clark, Saturday Paper 'Her writing, whether devastating or hilarious, has always shown a great deal of accessible humanity and relentless intelligence.' Guardian 'We needed a new David Williamson, someone who speaks to Australia and Australians now. We've found her in Nakkiah.' Alex Broun, playwright 'Mount Druitt's answer to Lena Dunham.' Belvoir Theatre 'If there is such a thing as a rockstar playwright, Nakkiah Lui is it.' Fran Kelly, RN Love, politics and other things you shouldn't talk about at dinner Charlotte Gibson is a lawyer with a brilliant career ahead of her. As her father Ray says, she could be the next female Indigenous Waleed Aly. But she has other ideas. First of all, it's Christmas. Second of all, she's in love. The thing is, her fiance, Francis Smith, is not what her family expected - he's unemployed, he's an experimental composer ... and he's white! Bringing him and his conservative parents to meet her family on their ancestral land is a bold move. Will he stand up to the scrutiny? Or will this romance descend into farce? Love is never just black and white. It's complicated by class, politics, ambition, and too much wine over dinner. But for Charlotte and Francis, it's mostly complicated by family. Secrets are revealed, prejudices outed and old rivalries get sorted through. What can't be solved through diplomacy can surely be solved by a good old-fashioned dance-off. They're just that kind of family. Award-winning writer Nakkiah Lui shows why she is one of this country's most in-demand young voices, delivering cutting satire that is both seductively subversive and thoroughly delightful.

The Strange History of the American Quadroon

The Strange History of the American Quadroon
Title The Strange History of the American Quadroon PDF eBook
Author Emily Clark
Publisher UNC Press Books
Pages 292
Release 2013-04-22
Genre Social Science
ISBN 1469607530

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Exotic, seductive, and doomed: the antebellum mixed-race free woman of color has long operated as a metaphor for New Orleans. Commonly known as a "quadroon," she and the city she represents rest irretrievably condemned in the popular historical imagination by the linked sins of slavery and interracial sex. However, as Emily Clark shows, the rich archives of New Orleans tell a different story. Free women of color with ancestral roots in New Orleans were as likely to marry in the 1820s as white women. And marriage, not concubinage, was the basis of their family structure. In The Strange History of the American Quadroon, Clark investigates how the narrative of the erotic colored mistress became an elaborate literary and commercial trope, persisting as a symbol that long outlived the political and cultural purposes for which it had been created. Untangling myth and memory, she presents a dramatically new and nuanced understanding of the myths and realities of New Orleans's free women of color.

The Octoroon

The Octoroon
Title The Octoroon PDF eBook
Author Dion Boucicault
Publisher Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Pages 50
Release 2018-06-19
Genre
ISBN 9781721584796

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The Octoroon or Life in Louisiana: A Play in Five acts by Dion Boucicault. The Octoroon is a play by Dion Boucicault that opened in 1859 at The Winter Garden Theatre, New York City. Extremely popular, the play was kept running continuously for years by seven road companies. Among antebellum melodramas, it was considered second in popularity only to Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852). Boucicault adapted the play from the novel The Quadroon by Thomas Mayne Reid (1856). It concerns the residents of a Louisiana plantation called Terrebonne, and sparked debates about the abolition of slavery and the role of theatre in politics. It contains elements of Romanticism and melodrama. Dionysius Lardner Boursiquot (26 December 1820 (or 1822) - 18 September 1890), commonly known as Dion Boucicault (Dee-on Boo-se-koh), was an Irish actor and playwright famed for his melodramas.

White Pearl

White Pearl
Title White Pearl PDF eBook
Author Anchuli Felicia King
Publisher Samuel French, Incorporated
Pages 0
Release 2022-11-08
Genre
ISBN 9780573710162

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"It's just a fun ad. Now the whole world is going crazy." In Singapore, Clearday(TM) has developed from a small startup into a leading international cosmetic brand in less than a year. But when a draft of the company's latest skin cream advert is leaked, the video goes viral globally for all the wrong reasons. YouTube views are in the thousands and keep climbing; anger is building on social media; and journalists are starting to cover the story. This is an international PR nightmare; the company cannot be seen to be racist, they've got to get it taken down before America wakes up.

The Octoroon; or, Life in Louisiana. A Play in Five acts

The Octoroon; or, Life in Louisiana. A Play in Five acts
Title The Octoroon; or, Life in Louisiana. A Play in Five acts PDF eBook
Author Dion Boucicault
Publisher DigiCat
Pages 60
Release 2022-09-04
Genre Drama
ISBN

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DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Octoroon; or, Life in Louisiana. A Play in Five acts" by Dion Boucicault. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.