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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... torture may be an " unspeakable act " legally , it is not one artistically or performatively . The history of torture is the history of secrecy and silence because public officials often try to conceal the documentation of torture , and ...
... torture through analyses of the descriptions , warrants , and depictions of torture . In similar arguments , Katharine Eisaman Maus and Elizabeth Hanson have exam- ined torture as a symptom of post - Reformation England's preoccupation ...
... torture is figured as that which threatens the authority of the English family ; under torture a man will even falsely confess to having " killed his own father . " Jeopardizing ... Tortured on the Interrogating Torture and Finding Race 11.
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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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