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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... social upheavals " and " conflicts between peoples and races . " 1 Opposed to “ disinterested ” theatre , Artaud designed the Theatre of Cruelty to depict and affect not only the " tortured vic- tims , " but also the " executioner ...
... social constructivist discourses for race intersect . The unheroic nature of the Spanish conquest allows the audience to ponder if physical conquest in some ways contami- nates the conqueror . Like all contamination narratives , the ...
... social and affective ways . This does not mean , however , that Dryden's employment of social constructivism was more benign , and therefore less harmful , than an essentialist view . Instead , Amboyna demonstrates not only how Dryden ...
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