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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... material and immaterial terms . Despite the fact that several scholars have claimed that race is not a factor in these plays because color differences are not highlighted in them , I argue that race is constructed as a matter that is no ...
... material in performance . Moreover , this moment of metadrama is heightened by an inclusion of a discussion of blackface . As Laula plots with Crimalhaz , she schemes : Now in her [ the Young Queen's ] Death we must some way invent ...
... 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 Christians as immaterial ...
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Religion Color and the White | 25 |
Abjection and Racial Characterization | 51 |
The Indian Emperour or The Conquest | 75 |
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