"Hell You Talmbout?" Sighting confusion in the performance of Black Revolt.

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. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]