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The Captive Stage - Performance and the Proslavery Imagination of the Antebellum North (Paperback)
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The Captive Stage - Performance and the Proslavery Imagination of the Antebellum North (Paperback)
Series: Theater: Theory/Text/Performance
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The Captive Stage offers the first cultural history of proslavery
ideology in the antebellum United States. While previous studies of
performance and literary culture in the period have overwhelmingly
focused on an antislavery theme, in fact the majority of
representations of slavery before the Civil War explicitly defended
the institution or accepted it as constitutive of American life. To
address this lacuna, Douglas A. Jones, Jr. traces the pervasiveness
of proslavery ideology in the antebellum period, charting its
functionality in the social, cultural, and racial imaginary in the
most unexpected of places: the free North. Even after northern
states outlawed slavery in the late-18th and early-19th centuries,
many of their constituencies continued to profit from imagining and
embodying black bondage in positive terms. These gains were not
just economic and political but also cognitive and psychological,
and reflect the multiple and frequently contradictory ways that
Americans across personal and collective difference used proslavery
ideology to conceptualize the interrelation of race, subjectivity,
and society. Furthermore, The Captive Stage pays particular
attention to the ways in which African Americans' claims to
universal freedom and citizenship influenced the shape of these
proslaveryinflected conceptualizations.
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