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Provocative Eloquence - Theater, Violence, and Anti-Slavery Speech in the Antebellum United States (Hardcover)
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Provocative Eloquence - Theater, Violence, and Anti-Slavery Speech in the Antebellum United States (Hardcover)
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In the mid-19th century, rhetoric surrounding slavery was permeated
by violence. Slavery's defenders often used brute force to suppress
opponents, and even those abolitionists dedicated to pacifism drew
upon visions of widespread destruction. Provocative Eloquence
recounts how the theater, long an arena for heightened eloquence
and physical contest, proved terribly relevant in the lead up to
the Civil War. As anti-slavery speech and open conflict
intertwined, the nation became a stage. The book 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. The
book draws on a wide range of work in performance studies, theater
history, black performance theory, oratorical studies, and
literature and law to provide a new narrative of the interaction of
oratorical, theatrical, and literary histories of the
nineteenth-century U.S.
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