Performing Race and Torture on the Early Modern StageRoutledge, 2008 - 174 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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... Aaron even clothes himself in the stereotypi- cal accoutrements of the spoils of empire - pearls and gold . In this first speech , Aaron demonstrates his own complex relationship with and under- standing of language . The power of Aaron's ...
... Aaron compare his blackness to the " Whites that call [ him ] fiend . " Unlike medieval and Renaissance racial ... Aaron's malignancy . Joyce Green MacDonald , for example , argues that “ the ineradicable problem " of the play is the ...
... Aaron's " dark soul . " The reference to Aaron's darkness reveals how closely Ravenscroft related Aaron's race with the opacity of his motives . In other words , the darkness of his skin color is interpreted as obscuring meaning , and ...
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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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