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Speaking of Books…
March 28th, 2012 by Mierka
The conversations with campus authors series continues on Thursday, April 12th at 4:30! Mark your calendars to meet Professor and Associate Director of Theatre Dr. Heather Nathans as she discusses her book Slavery and Sentiment on the American Stage, 1787-1861: Lifting the Veil of Black (Cambridge UP, 2009).
“For almost a hundred years before Uncle Tom’s Cabin burst on to the scene in 1852, the American theatre struggled to represent the evils of slavery. Slavery and Sentiment questions how the text, images, and performances presented to American audiences during the antebellum period engaged with the debate over black participation in American society. Heather Nathans blends American history, theatre history, and literary history to question how theatre and performance lifted the ‘veil of black’ on American racism in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.”
The event is free and includes light refreshments. Please join us in McKeldin’s special events room (on the sixth floor) as we learn more about the antebellum!
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