Moorish Entertainers in Transatlantic Performances

Moorish Entertainers in Transatlantic Performances

EJAC 38 (3) pp. 217–237 Intellect Limited 2019
European Journal of American Culture
Volume 38 Number 3
© 2019 Intellect Ltd Article. English language. doi: 10.1386/ejac_00003_1
Lhoussain Simour
Hassan II University of Casablanca
Shahraza-d in transatlantic journeys: Moorish dancing entertainers beyond borders (1850–1912)1
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Lhoussain Simour
track the physical
and epistemological
disturb racial hierarchies of the nineteenth-century entertainment industry. The artistic and entertaining experiences of Moroccan entertainers beyond borders are an important research venue that historicizes, contextualizes and problematizes identity and difference through a recollection of archives and a rereading of discourses that have hitherto been debased…