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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... discuss the uncomfortable , and potentially politically dangerous , subject matter . " And yet , torture does not exist as ... discussion of the performativity of torture , however , is completely reserved for the performative aspects of ...
... discuss Ysabinda's race . The first discussion of her , in fact , encapsulates the way Dryden skillfully sidesteps any discussions of race . In Act I , scene i , when Beamont and Collins inform the Dutch of Towerson's return to Amboyna ...
... discussion of these pageants see Tim Harris , London Crowds in the Reign of Charles II : Propaganda and Politics from the Res- toration until the Exclusion Crisis ( Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 1987 ) , 120-128 . 16. All ...
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