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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... becomes the mark that necessitates the " exquisite tor- tures . " The slaves are not suspected of some hidden perfidy if they are cap- tured after an attempted escape : their perfidy would be publicized and well known at that point ...
... become the heroic , and , of course , the heroic becomes codified as essen- tially English through the establishment of the white / right gaze : it becomes domestic , English , and the antithesis of the racialized Other . Even Dryden's ...
... , and this horrific desire becomes emblematic of the differences between the two European powers . Moreover , it becomes clear that Dryden elides all Gravelot inv : GVanderGucht . cul Figure 5.1 . Frontispiece Racializing Mercantilism 113.
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Religion Color and the White | 25 |
Abjection and Racial Characterization | 51 |
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