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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... constructions of race is radically different from the " now - dominant narrative of oppression . " While most critics have not gone as far as Floyd - Wilson's argument , they have maintained a divide between early modern and modern ...
... constructions of race and modern biological constructions of race . This binary , as Loomba suggests , creates the false impression that cultural constructions are more " flexible . ” I diverge from Loomba's argument , however , by ...
... construction of race : the act of viewing the performance creates these contradictory constructions . This theory , of course , seems to privilege the " white " gaze , creating race from the “ majority ” position . This is definitely ...
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