Indianos, exhibiciones etnológicas y freak show en el teatro francés de la Tercera República

  1. Ramos Gay, Ignacio 1
  1. 1 Universitat de València
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    Universitat de València

    Valencia, España

    ROR https://ror.org/043nxc105

Journal:
Thélème: Revista complutense de estudios franceses

ISSN: 1139-9368,  1989-8193

Year of publication: 2017

Volume: 32

Issue: 1

Pages: 95-108

Type: Article

DOI: 10.5209/THEL.52551 DIALNET GOOGLE SCHOLAR lock_openOpen access editor

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Abstract

The aim of this article is to trace the parallelisms between the theatrical character of the “Indiano” and the aborigines exhibited in fair barracks during the beginnings of the Third Republic in France. Through a close reading of Eugène Labiche’s vaudeville, Le prix Martin (1876), I analyze the physical, moral and symbolic resemblances between the rastaquouère Hernandez and the natives featured in freak shows and other exhibitions of contemporary phénomènes. Such an approach will provide a critical perspective on the Parisian bourgeoisie that defined so much of itself through its rejection of foreign otherness.

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