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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... differences between Mus- lims and Christians as immaterial . In these plays , the followers of Islam may have black souls , but these differences are not material or visible ones . On the other hand , the significance of the torture ...
... differences as both material and immaterial . The projection , and conversion , of older religious models particularly ones that demonize Catholics as being ruthlessly power hungry - identi- fies the differences between Muslims and ...
... differences from the Europeans visible . The performance of Amboyna , thus , serves to racialize the Dutch by implying that their dis- tinctions between " fair " Amboyners and Europeans stem solely from their greed and interest in trade ...
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Religion Color and the White | 25 |
Abjection and Racial Characterization | 51 |
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