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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... notion of race today : one that is radically different from what existed ( or did not exist ) in the seven- teenth century . It is important to counter , however , that modern notions of race are no more “ intractabl [ e ] ” than early ...
... notion of racial essentialism . The power of Aaron's linguistic dexterity , which I call a linguistic miscegenation , reveals how identities can be rhetorically con- structed . The rhetorical revisions in Edward Ravenscroft's Titus ...
... notion of racial essen- tialism is merely a product of Aaron's linguistic dexterity . Titus Androni- cus creates a space for the audience to interrogate the comforting , yet simplistic , notion of the absolute and essential differences ...
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