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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... never turn the swans black legs to white , Although she lave them hourly in the flood . ( 4.2.103-105 ) 1o Promoting an impermeable definition of race , Aaron boasts the fact that " black legs " can never be washed white . " Likewise ...
... never tame . ( 1.2.250-255 ) Southerne is only able to deconstruct the lieutenant governor's desire socially to mark Oroonoko as his subject and property by creating a char- acter who believes in his own inaccessible interiority . Not ...
... never simply and solely about color , I argue , because the racializing episte- mology was about the codification and normalization of the anti - racialized white / right gaze . By focusing on theatrical depictions , moreover , I empha ...
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