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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... significance of the racialized body in performance . Scenes of torture , as I argue , provide the most salient and palpable examples of the contradictory ways race was encoded and constructed . In chapter 2 , " A Matter that is No ...
... significance of color for a racial- ized epistemology . Moving from an analysis of the semiotic significance of the white female actress's body to the blackfaced white actor's body , I examine the contradictory ways the significance of ...
... significance of this sign . Far from pre- senting a singular and uniform interpretation of color's significance , these plays reveal the contradictory construction of race as both fixed and alter- able , even when color is imbued with a ...
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