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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... performance theories seem overly invested in modern performances of race . Despite the fact that per- formance ... performance theory , but similarly informed by an interest in the connec- tions between psychoanalysis and race , Homi ...
... performance tech- niques used to convey race . As he argues , these performances register for audiences in both material and discursive ways because they are so obvi- ously performances achieved with highly visible prosthetic devices ...
... performance pieces that constantly recreate themselves and the audience . Of course , this book is an attempt to reveal , expose , and make apparent the zombie - like narratives and constructions that these plays help to cre- ate ...
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