For two days of intensive discussion of on-going research projects, scholars from Germany, Austria, Greece, and the United States gathered at “The Politics and Polemics of Gender in Early American Theater” conference in Salzburg, Austria. On Friday, Friday September 30, 2016, Conger presented her paper entitled “Deborah Read Franklin and Sally Franklin Bache: Intergenerational Cultural Performances of Politics."
Conger’s paper analyzed the cultural performance of politics across generations and over time. It explored the ways Deborah Read Franklin and Sally Franklin Bache constructed and were constructed by the public resistance to the British during the American Revolution. She argued that Franklins elder and younger found their political voices through experiencing conflict, resistance, and resolution in revolutionary Philadelphia. To differing degrees at different times and at different life stages, Deborah and Sally enacted a street theater of identity politics.
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