Description
Book SynopsisBrings 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.
Trade ReviewAn excellent book, grounded in rhetorical styles and strategies, dramatic genealogies and debates, theatrical conventions, and performance theories, while actively contesting these fields and conventions and reshaping how we view them. Her imbrications of 19th-century theater, oratory, and print culture, in service to anti-slavery and pro-slavery positions are thoroughly convincing."" - Marvin McAllister, Winthrop University
""A historical excavation of all the inherited conflicts and inconsistencies that have come to define our present social moment . . . an indispensable accounting of how American culture performed its own divided loyalties, uncertainties, and unspoken internal contradictions about race, freedom, and national allegiances."" - Peter Reed, University of Mississippi
