Provocative Eloquence: Theater, Violence, and Antislavery Speech in the Antebellum United States

ISBN-13: 9780472131051 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 296 str.

Laura L. Mielke

Opis

Brings together notions of intertextuality and interperformativity to understand how the confluence of oratorical and theatrical practices in the antebellum period reflected the conflict over slavery and deeply influenced the language that barely contained that conflict.