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  • Publisher:
    Cambridge University Press
    Publication date:
    05 May 2014
    24 April 2014
    ISBN:
    9781107447653
    9781107060890
    9781107644601
    DOI:
    https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781107447653
    Dimensions:
    (228 x 152 mm)
    Weight & Pages:
    0.59kg, 309 Pages
    Dimensions:
    (229 x 152 mm)
    Weight & Pages:
    0.5kg, 314 Pages
    • Subjects:
    Literature, Area Studies, American Literature, American Studies, American Theatre, Drama, Theatre, Performance Studies
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    Literature, Area Studies, American Literature, American Studies, American Theatre, Drama, Theatre, Performance Studies
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    In Performing Anti-Slavery, Gay Gibson Cima reimagines the connection between the self and the other within activist performance, providing fascinating new insights into women's nineteenth-century reform efforts, 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. Drawing on liberal religious traditions as well as the Eastern notion of transmigration, Elizabeth Chandler, Sarah Forten, Maria W. Stewart, Sarah Douglass, Lucretia Mott, Ellen Craft and others forged activist pathways that reverberate to this day.

    Awards

    Honourable Mention, 2015 Barnard Hewitt Award, American Society for Theatre Research

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    • Introduction
      pp 1-38
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    • Chapter 1 - From sentimental sympathy to activist self-judgment
      pp 39-90
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