The other history of cultural encounters through performance revisited: shifting discourses on Moroccan acrobatic entertainers in nineteenth-century America.
This paper attempts to re-examine Moroccan non-canonical voices, their forgotten experiences and their itineraries beyond borders. It aims to uncover cultural discourses pertaining to early cultural and artistic interactions through acrobatic performances between Morocco and the West, namely America...
| Publicado en: | Cultural Studies Vol. 34; no. 1; pp. 70 - 95 |
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