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- Title
The Wild West Turns East: Audience, Ritual, and Regeneration in Buffalo Bill's Boxer Uprising.
- Authors
Haddad, John R.
- Abstract
The article discusses the reenactment of the Boxer Rebellion by bison hunter William Cody, or Buffalo Bill, in his Wild West stage show. The author engages with notions of civilization, savagery, and cultural legitimacy held by U.S. whites at the turn of the 20th century. Emphasis is given to audience reaction to the show, the nature of modernity, and descriptions of the actual Boxer uprising in China. The imperialist foreign policy of the U.S. government is discussed, along with the anti-imperialist sentiments held by some U.S. citizens.
- Subjects
CHINA; UNITED States; BUFFALO Bill, 1846-1917; WILD west shows; MODERNITY; AUDIENCE response; IMPERIALISM; TWENTIETH century; BOXER Rebellion, China, 1899-1901; FOREIGN relations of the United States -- 1897-1901
- Publication
American Studies (00263079), 2008, Vol 49, Issue 3/4, p5
- ISSN
0026-3079
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/ams.2010.0050