activist women on antebellum stages
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Cima, Gay Gibson
- Publish Year
- 2016
- Shelfmark
- VS 6 2014 - B
- Thesaurus
- slavernij, abolitionisme, zwarte vrouwen, witte vrouwen, etniciteit, religie, 19e eeuw
- Description
- Cima reimagines the connection between the self and the other within activist performance , revising the history of abolition and illuminating an affective repertoire that haunts both present-day theatrical stages and anti-trafficking organizations. Cima argues that black and white American women in the nineteenth-century abolitionist movement transformed mainstream performance practices into successful activism. In family circles, literary associations, religious gatherings, and transatlantic anti-slavery societies, women debated activist performance strategies across racial and religious differences: they staged abolitionist dialogues, recited anti-slavery poems, gave speeches, shared narratives, and published essays.