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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... reveal the ambiguous relation- ship between torture and truth . While Christian victims are tortured to give false evidence against Christ , their tortures ultimately do reveal the truth of his divinity . Enders argues , " the torture ...
... reveal enough of these differences . Likewise , sometimes the racialized torturers are violent because their bodies reveal the essential evil nature of their souls , and sometimes they torture because the act alone reveals their ...
... reveal how the failure to convey the human must still be analyzed in an appropriative fash- ion in order to combat depictions of torture that continue to reconstruct the racialized Other and the normalized , anti - racialized white ...
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Religion Color and the White | 25 |
Abjection and Racial Characterization | 51 |
The Indian Emperour or The Conquest | 75 |
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