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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... slavery helps to begin to explain this complex relation- ship . He theorizes that " The slave emerges predominantly as an object afflicted , not as a subject capable of describing his or her affliction . The pain of slaves , when ...
... slaves ; they'll not stir . Blanford and Stanmore , come you along with me . Some of you stay here to look after the black slaves . ( 2.3.122-124 ) The blackness of the African slaves marks them as potentially dangerous , unlike their ...
... slaves does not socially construct them into controlled and controllable beings : mark- ing slaves does not remake them . Until the aristocracy sees Oroonoko's torture , however , this belief was not fully entrenched for them . Lucy and ...
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