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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... race . Despite the fact that per- formance theories make universalizing claims ( e.g. , gender and race are performative ) , the arguments end up being dependent upon a specific his- torical moment . Butler admits , for example , that ...
... race was first constructed through dramatic performances , then the difficulty of " authenticating " racial identity ... race scholars . Most scholars have offered the caveat that modern conceptions / perceptions of race differ from ...
... race is somehow benign and flexible . " 33 Like Loomba , I think it is important to deconstruct the simplistic binary between early modern cultural constructions of race and modern biological constructions of race . This binary , as ...
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