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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... present on the island . Writing about " the sequence of Dutch advantages " as being " productive , distributional , [ and ] financial , " Wallerstein notes how often the distribu- tional and financial advantages have been cast in ...
... present in Amboyna . Not even Dryden's hybrid genre of " unabashed propaganda cast into the form of heroic tragedy " could mask the tensions created by this simultaneous elision and projec- tion of racial difference.2 I begin with an ...
... present the Dutch as being essentially different from the English , he creates a performance piece that emphasizes the economic factors that end up affecting identity . Torture , and more specifically the stage rack , stands at the ...
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