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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... meaning in the twentieth and twenty - first centuries : a stable meaning that is different from that of the seventeenth century . The stagings of torture in the early modern theatre , however , effec- tively dismantle these assumptions ...
... meaning of the racialized body certain , the use of torture ends up revealing a deep anxiety about the meaning ( s ) of and connections between color , identity , and race . Attending to performance strategies , of course , one must ...
... meaning semiotically than they normally would in the theatre . Nevertheless , one must ask what the difference is between Spanish , English , and Indian bodies in this " pseudo - masque " if a set of props , like feathers , racks ...
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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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