Cultivating National Identity through Performance: American by N. Stubbs

By N. Stubbs

As outdoors leisure venues in American towns, excitement gardens have been public areas the place humans may discover what it intended to be American. Stubbs examines how those venues helped shape American id and argues the gardens allowed for the exploration of what it intended to be American via functionality, either off and on the stage.

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