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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... sexuality , " by asking what it would mean " to consider the assumption of sexual positions ... as taking place not only through a heterosexualizing symbolic ... but through a complex set of racial injunc- tions " ( 167 ) . Taboos of ...
... sexual component . With the projection and conversion ( both figuratively and literally ) of the universal monarch in the late seventeenth century , however , the old tales of unbridled sexual appetites that could only be sated in ...
... sexuality . Despite the fact that the prisoners were being abused for allegedly raping a young male inmate , the image constructs the prisoners as contained threats to white - female sexual- ity . Thus , the images are certainly linked ...
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