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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... cultural ' understanding of race is somehow benign and flexible . " 33 Like Loomba , I think it is important to deconstruct the simplistic binary between early modern cultural constructions of race and modern biological constructions of ...
... cultural and racial distinctions afforded by Montezuma's torture . This is not to say that race is effaced or erased ; rather , both the Indians and the Spanish are racialized in this moment . I have focused on the torture scene in The ...
Ayanna Thompson. means an acknowledgement and acceptance of larger cultural - historical narratives that have contributed to the derealization of the Other : it means actively connecting seemingly disparate points in a cultural ...
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