Performing Race and Torture on the Early Modern StageRoutledge, 2008 - 174 頁 Performing Race and Torture on the Early Modern Stage provides the first sustained reading of Restoration plays through a performance theory lens. This approach shows that an analysis of the conjoined performances of torture and race not only reveals the early modern interest in the nature of racial identity, but also how race was initially coded in a paradoxical fashion as both essentially fixed and socially constructed. An examination of scenes of torture provides the most effective way to unearth these seemingly contradictory representations of race because depictions of torture often interrogate the incongruous desire to substitute the visible and manipulable materiality of the body for the more illusive performative nature of identity. In turn, Performing Race and Torture on the Early Modern Stage challenges the long-standing assumption that early modern conceptions of race were radically different in their fluidity from post-Enlightenment ones by demonstrating how many of the debates we continue to have about the nature of racial identity were engendered by these seventeenth-century performances. |
搜尋書籍內容
第 1 到 3 筆結果,共 18 筆
... Davenant's " pseudo - masque " I will highlight how Davenant attempts to imbue props and dances with racial signification . This was a politically astute maneuver that served to construct race in both essentialist and discursive terms ...
... Davenant , The Play - house to be Let in The Works of Sir William Davenant Consisting of Those which were formerly Printed , And Those which he design'd for the Press : Now Published Out of the Authors Originall Copies ( London ...
... Davenant's historical connection with the New World . The exiled Charles II appointed Davenant treasurer of Vir- ginia in 1650 ; he was also named Lieutenant Governor of Maryland when it was discovered that Lord Baltimore sympathized ...
內容
Religion Color and the White | 25 |
Abjection and Racial Characterization | 51 |
The Indian Emperour or The Conquest | 75 |
著作權所有 | |
4 個其他區段未顯示