Introduction from Uncle Tom's Cabins: The Transnational History of America's Most Mutable Book (2018)

• Tracy C. Davis,
• Stefka Mihaylova

Affiliations

Tracy C. Davis

Reprinted with permission from University of Michigan Press. Copyright 2018 by Tracy C. Davis and Stefka Mihaylova. TRACY C. DAVIS is Barber Professor of Performing Arts at Northwestern University. Her most recent book is The Routledge Handbook to Theatre and Performance Historiography, coedited with Peter W. Marx. She is writing a book about nineteenth-century liberal activists. STEFKA MIHAYLOVA is Assistant Professor of Theatre History and Dramatic Criticism at the University of Washington in Seattle. Her book manuscript, “Viewers in Distress: Race, Gender, and Radical Performance at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century,” argues that in the mid-1990s new radical performance began emerging in the US and Britain, challenging our understanding of radicalism inherited from the 1960s and 1970s, and explores the historical factors that influenced this shift. She is the coeditor of Uncle Tom’s Cabins: The Transnational History of America’s Most Mutable Book (University of Michigan Press, 2018). Her research has appeared in Theatre Survey, New Theatre Quarterly, and Contemporary Theatre Review, as well as book collections.

Stefka Mihaylova

University of Washington