Abstract. We obtain a duality theorem for separable locally compact groups, where the group is regained from the set of factor unitary representations. Loosely stated, the group is isomorphic to the group of nonzero bounded, operator valued maps on the set of factor representations, which preserve unitary equivalence, direct sums, and tensor products. The axiom involving tensor products is formulated in terms of direct integral theory. The topology of G may be regained from the irreducible representations alone. Indeed a sequence {x¡} in G, converges to x in G if and and only if tt(x¡) converges strongly to u-(jc) for each irreducible representation -n of G. This result supplies the missing topological part of the strong duality theorem of N. Tatsuuma for type I separable locally compact groups (based on irreducible representations). Our result also generalizes this Tatsuuma strong duality theorem to the nontype I case.
Focusing on William Wells Brown's one published play. The Escape; or, A Leap for Freedom (1858), I address Brown's decision to supplement his antislavery lectures with dramatic readings of original plays. In this effort to challenge the terms of a representative identity as a black antislavery lecturer, Brown presented a conception of social life grounded in what I term multiply contingent identity. By this formulation, one's social identity is always contingent and is always in danger of being undermined as one's performance of selfhood awaits verifying responses in the form of reciprocal performances in the field of social relations. In The Escape, Brown turned his own performance of identity on the antislavery lecture circuit into a commentary on performance itself, especially on performances both shaped and veiled by the ideology of race. In this way. Brown attempted to reposition white northern antislavery sentiment, reconstructing whiteness by emphasizing its contingent relation to a reconfigured vision of African American identity.
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