{"id":95282,"date":"2016-03-07T09:20:47","date_gmt":"2016-03-07T14:20:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=95282"},"modified":"2016-03-07T10:34:09","modified_gmt":"2016-03-07T15:34:09","slug":"that-old-time-coney-island-dreamland-and-other-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2016\/03\/07\/that-old-time-coney-island-dreamland-and-other-news\/","title":{"rendered":"That Old-time Coney Island Dreamland, and Other News"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_95283\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/coney-battle-lights.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-95283\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-95283\" class=\"wp-image-95283\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/coney-battle-lights.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"543\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/coney-battle-lights.jpg 1600w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/coney-battle-lights-300x271.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/coney-battle-lights-768x695.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/coney-battle-lights-1024x926.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-95283\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Joseph Stella, <i>Battle of Lights, Coney Island, Mardi Gras<\/i>, 1913\u20131914.<\/p><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>Coney Island today is a\u00a0fine\u00a0place to force-feed yourself hotdogs and get a weird rash, but in centuries past it was a bona fide dreamland\u2014so much so that a new exhibition of early Coney Island art is called \u201cVisions of an American Dreamland.\u201d J. Hoberman writes, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nybooks.com\/daily\/2016\/03\/04\/coney-island\/\" target=\"_blank\">As befits a dreamland, the exhibit\u2014curated by Robin Jaffee Frank, who also wrote much of the show\u2019s excellent, richly illustrated catalogue\u2014is a mix of artifacts and artworks and a trove of suggestive juxtapositions<\/a> \u2026 A\u00a01910 wooden cut-out cartoon of Mae West and Jimmy Durante, both of whom got their starts in Coney Island \u2018concert saloons,\u2019 is positioned opposite a selection of roughly contemporaneous Sunday pages by the master draughtsman Winsor McCay, whose gorgeously inventive comic strip\u00a0<em>Little Nemo in Slumberland\u00a0<\/em>was surely the greatest graphic expression of fin-de-si\u00e8cle Coney.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Morgan Jerkins reflects on the role of the diary for black women: \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/books\/page-turner\/black-women-writers-and-the-secret-space-of-diaries\" target=\"_blank\">The boundaries of a black woman\u2019s social life are many and varied. Alice Dunbar Nelson, who had been married to the famous black writer Paul Laurence Dunbar, wrote in her diary of her lesbian and other extramarital affairs.<\/a> One of the fears that many black women writers have historically had is that if they reveal too much of their intimate lives, it could reflect badly, not only on themselves but on the black community. In addition to matters of romance and money, these earlier diaries of black women are filled with confessions about strained familial relationships, and personal demons and insecurities \u2026 For a black woman in a white world, a conversation with the self is crucial: for when she walks through that often-unwelcoming world she is subjected to confining perceptions of who she might be. When that world insists on racist and narrow paradigms, the diary gives these women a chance to scratch out and rewrite such definitions.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Today in unsolicited advice for parents: take your kids to see <em>Where\u2019s Peter Rabbit<\/em>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2016\/mar\/06\/beatrix-potter-dark-puppet-musical-alan-ayckbourn?CMP=twt_books_b-gdnbooks\" target=\"_blank\">a new puppet musical designed to preserve the memory of Beatrix Potter\u2019s darker side<\/a>. It\u2019ll scare the shit out of them \u2026 but, you know, in a good way. As the designer Roger Glossop argues, \u201c[Potter\u2019s] stories really are not all fluffy bunnies. I mean, Mr. Tod, the fox in\u00a0<em>The\u00a0Tale of Jemima Puddleduck<\/em>, is one of the darker villains you will find anywhere in children\u2019s literature \u2026 It is a really foul piece and so, dramatically, that is terrific! We do wonder if some children in the audience may leave weeping, although we will certainly not try to scare them.\u201d Sold!<\/li>\n<li>Not unrelatedly, a new book of Laura Ingalls Wilder\u2019s letters sheds some much-needed light on her past and her feelings about the coddled youths of her day: \u201cLater in life, as the\u00a0<em>Little House\u00a0<\/em>series grew in popularity, her letters are devoted to readers\u2014children, parents, schoolteachers, librarians, even a congressman\u2014who flood Wilder with fan mail. The Laura in this period is given to mildly political disquisitions on how things used to be. \u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/newrepublic.com\/article\/129021\/laura-ingalls-wilder\" target=\"_blank\">The children today have so much that they have lost the power to truly enjoy anything<\/a>,\u2019 Wilder wrote from her ten-room house in 1944. \u2018They are poor little rich children.\u2019\u201d<\/li>\n<li>To go by the new collection of Jane Austen\u2019s juvenilia, <em>Love and Freindship<\/em> [sic], no one would ever accuse her of being a poor little rich kid. The book is, at its best, sublimely ridiculous, as in the case of a 1788 work called <em>The Beautifull <\/em>[sic]<em> Cassandra<\/em>: \u201cEscaping her parents\u2019 millinery shop with another woman\u2019s hat on her head, Cassandra sets out to \u2018make her Fortune.\u2019 Her\u00a0attempt would last seven hours. For a lot of heroines, that exit from the parental home would be precisely the moment when a handsome man, whether a villain or a preserver, would be thrown in her way. But <a href=\"http:\/\/lithub.com\/the-beautiful-proto-feminist-snark-of-jane-austens-juvenilia\/\" target=\"_blank\">when Cassandra finds herself in just this situation, passing an attractive Viscount, she walks right by him to devour a gluttonous amount of dessert<\/a> \u2026 The heroine \u2018proceeded to a Pastry-cooks where she devoured six ices, refused to pay for them, knocked down the Pastry Cook and walked away.\u2019 \u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Coney Island today is a\u00a0fine\u00a0place to force-feed yourself hotdogs and get a weird rash, but in centuries past it was a bona fide dreamland\u2014so much so that a new exhibition of early Coney Island art is called \u201cVisions of an American Dreamland.\u201d J. Hoberman writes, \u201cAs befits a dreamland, the exhibit\u2014curated by Robin Jaffee Frank, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2512],"tags":[8122,446,189,9145,7682,21410,300,11339,2879,182,21412,14432,15183,21411],"class_list":["post-95282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-on-the-shelf","tag-beatrix-potter","tag-brooklyn-museum","tag-children","tag-coney-island","tag-diaries","tag-diarizing","tag-jane-austen","tag-juvenilia","tag-laura-ingalls-wilder","tag-letters","tag-love-and-freindship","tag-plays","tag-puppets","tag-wheres-peter-rabbit"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.4 (Yoast SEO v25.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>When Coney Island Was a 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