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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... various chapters , and all four offered encouragement and advice . Thanks for being good friends and colleagues . I have also benefited from generous institu- tional support during the various phases of this project . First , I would ...
... various then ever the Indians worshipt , and Heroes , more lawless than their Savages . ' The heroic tragedy , a genre made popular during the Restoration , cele- brated quests and conquests in foreign and exotic lands , but Leigh ...
... various islands under dispute ( 3 ) . And , of course , there are the English and the Dutch . Digges takes pains to note the various ethnic groups populating the island , delineating each group specifically within the first five ...
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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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