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. |
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... serves to construct a racializing epistemology : the English become normalized , as I said before , anti ... served to construct an English identity that was uniquely normalized . This normalization of the English , what I refer to as ...
... serves to question the semiotics of performance and the semiotics of the material in performance . Moreover , this moment of metadrama is heightened by an inclusion of a discussion of blackface . As Laula plots with Crimalhaz , she ...
Ayanna Thompson. into a " white " serves several important points . Not only does it serve to lessen anxieties about the English planters ' desire for Imoinda , but also it serves to reveal the hypocrisy of Oroonoko's essentialism . Far ...
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Religion Color and the White | 25 |
Abjection and Racial Characterization | 51 |
The Indian Emperour or The Conquest | 75 |
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