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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... body for these constructions : and the nationalized body becomes racialized . Unlike the early modern treatises that discuss tor- ture in philosophical , legal , and even jingoistic terms , artistic depictions of torture necessarily ...
... body represented a normalized and anti- racialized English figure ( like Tamira in Xerxes or Towerson in Amboyna ) , the torturer's body was implicitly and explicitly racialized . The exposure of the normalized body , then , helps to ...
... body . While it is obvious that the rack renders the victim vulnerable through excruciating physical pain , the rack also tortures by exposing the body to the unmedi- ated gaze . The onstage torture of Aaron refocuses the entire gaze on ...
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