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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... Despite the fact that Artaud's desire to create a link between seventeenth- and twentieth - century colonial psychologies explains his decision to adapt an early modern text , Dryden's Indian Emperour does not exactly permit Europe's ...
... though the genre thrived in a period when such depictions were popular . Although Joyce Green MacDonald uses the phrase " vengeful Moor , ” and despite the fact that Virginia Mason Vaughan has a chapter in her book entitled " Avenging ...
... Despite the fact that the events in Amboyna take place on what is now called Ambon Island , part of the Maluka Islands of Indonesia , Dryden is careful to racialize only the Dutch : not the Amboynese , Japanese , or Portuguese present ...
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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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