{"id":11298,"date":"2011-01-06T22:08:14","date_gmt":"2011-01-06T22:08:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=11298"},"modified":"2011-11-14T00:11:18","modified_gmt":"2011-11-14T00:11:18","slug":"ellen-craft%e2%80%99s-radical-techniques-of-subversion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=11298","title":{"rendered":"Ellen Craft\u2019s Radical Techniques of Subversion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/hemisphericinstitute.org\/hemi\/en\/e-misferica-52\/mcmillan\" target=\"_blank\">Ellen Craft\u2019s Radical Techniques of Subversion<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/hemisphericinstitute.org\/hemi\/en\/all-issues\" target=\"_blank\">e-misf\u00e9rica<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/hemisphericinstitute.org\/hemi\/\" target=\"_blank\">Hemispheric Institute for Performance &amp; Politics<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/hemisphericinstitute.org\/hemi\/en\/e-misferica-52\" target=\"_blank\">Issue 5.2: Race and its Others<\/a> (December 2008)<br \/>\n16 pages<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.english.ucla.edu\/index.php\/Faculty\/mcmillan-uri\" target=\"_blank\">Uri McMillan<\/a><\/strong>, Assistant Professor of English<br \/>\n<em>University of California, Los Angeles<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/hemisphericinstitute.org\/hemi\/en\/e-misferica-52\/mcmillan\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/hemisphericinstitute.org\/hemi\/images\/e-misferica\/all_issues_images\/52_sm_issuecover.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<small>Image by Bruce Yonemoto<\/small><\/p>\n<p>This paper considers the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/History_of_the_United_States_(1789%E2%80%931849)\" target=\"_blank\">antebellum<\/a> performance(s) of fugitive slave <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ellen_Craft\" target=\"_blank\">Ellen Craft<\/a>. Craft, an African-American female slave from <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Georgia_(U.S._state)\" target=\"_blank\">Georgia<\/a>, impersonated a white male slaveholder, Mr. William Johnson, in order to escape from slavery with her husband William. I argue that through various techniques of performance\u2014cross-racial impersonation, prosthetics, costume, hair, and gender performance, for example\u2014Craft radically destabilized nineteenth-century social norms, particularly racial and gender mores. An antebellum subject who manipulated her body as an elastic object, Ellen Craft made costumes out of the rigid nineteenth-century identities of \u201cblackness\u201d and \u201cwhiteness,\u201d particularly 19th century white masculinity. In this paper, specifically, I analyze the corporeal techniques Craft wielded in her original performance to escape in America before moving to her appearances later on the abolitionist lecture stage in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/England\" target=\"_blank\">England<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/hemi.nyu.edu\/eng\/publications\/emisferica\/5.2\/52_images\/pdf\/mcmillan_print.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ellen Craft\u2019s Radical Techniques of Subversion e-misf\u00e9rica Hemispheric Institute for Performance &amp; Politics Issue 5.2: Race and its Others (December 2008) 16 pages Uri McMillan, Assistant Professor of English University of California, Los Angeles Image by Bruce Yonemoto This paper considers the antebellum performance(s) of fugitive slave Ellen Craft. Craft, an African-American female slave from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[459,1196,8,6940,20,25],"tags":[5077,88,5076],"class_list":["post-11298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-literary-criticism","category-media-archive","category-slavery","category-usa","category-women","tag-e-misferica","tag-ellen-craft","tag-uri-mcmillan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11298\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}