Performing ‘Little Egypt’: Ashea Wabe and the American Harem Scenario

TY - CHAP

T1 - Performing ‘Little Egypt’

T2 - Ashea Wabe and the American Harem Scenario

AU - Koegeler-Abdi, Martina

PY - 2016/12/13

Y1 - 2016/12/13

N2 - The belly dancer Ashea Wabe reached national fame as ‘Little Egypt’ in her provocative performances on and off stage in the late nineteenth century. I argue that her strategic embodiment of colonial harem fantasies was integral to the development of an American harem scenario that merges orientalist fantasies with the specter of U.S. slavery.

AB - The belly dancer Ashea Wabe reached national fame as ‘Little Egypt’ in her provocative performances on and off stage in the late nineteenth century. I argue that her strategic embodiment of colonial harem fantasies was integral to the development of an American harem scenario that merges orientalist fantasies with the specter of U.S. slavery.

U2 - 10.3726/b10360

DO - 10.3726/b10360

M3 - Book chapter

SP - 137

EP - 158

BT - Approaching Transnational America in Performance

A2 - Bauridl , Birgit M.

A2 - Wiegmink, Pia

PB - Peter Lang

CY - Frankfurt am Main, Bern, Bruxelles, New York, Oxford, Warszawa, Wien

ER -