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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... attempts to suture over this lack of legality by constructing the rack in a familial paradigm . Masking an anxiety about incorporating a foreign device into domestic policy , Coke attempts to assimilate the rack into a familiar fam- ily ...
... attempt to psychologize Aaron's malignancy . Joyce Green MacDonald , for example , argues that “ the ineradicable problem " of the play is the fact that “ audiences identif [ y ] with Aaron's point of view ... [ despite the fact that ] ...
... attempting to force the English to be grotesquely Dutch . The attempted conversion , of course , is never discussed in terms of essentialism ; instead , the Dutch attempt to construct their grotesque doubles through the act of torture ...
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