"Hell You Talmbout?" Sighting confusion in the performance of Black Revolt. Issue 3 (1st September 2020)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Imhotep, Ra Malika; Zhang, SJ; Snorton, C. Riley
• Is Part Of: Women & performance. Volume 30:Issue 3(2020)
• Page Start: 331
• Page End: 343
• Publication Date: 2020-09-01
• Subjects: 1811 Revolt -- abolition -- maroons -- reenactment; Feminism and the arts -- Periodicals; Theater -- Periodicals; Women -- Periodicals; Women in the theater -- Periodicals; Women in the motion picture industry -- Periodicals; Women in television broadcasting -- Periodicals; Performing arts -- Periodicals; Women artists -- Periodicals; Vrouwen; Uitvoerende kunsten; 305.4201
• DOI: 10.1080/0740770X.2020.1907687
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0740-770X

Abstract

Abstract : This essay considers how "confusion" shapes narrative strategies and understandings of the 1811 Uprising in Louisiana and how artistic practice, performance, and amateur documentation differently refract public memory-making of the uprising and its brutal response. Here confusion also maps the relations between reenactment, the reenactors, and the practice and politics of abolitionist imagination.