"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...

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1. Verfasser:	Cima, Gay Gibson 1948- (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Buch
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	New York [u.a.] Cambridge Univ. Press 2014
Ausgabe:	1. publ.
Schlagworte:	aAntislavery movementszUnited StatesxHistoryy19th century aWomen abolitionistszUnited StatesxHistoryy19th century aWomenxPolitical activityzUnited StatesxHistoryy19th century aSocial reformerszUnited StatesxHistoryy19th century Abschaffung Frau Politische Beteiligung Sklaverei USA
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Zusammenfassung:	"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"--
Beschreibung:	XIII, 298 S. Ill.
ISBN:	9781107060890