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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... writes : A spectacular seizure of the will erupts in an English audience con- fronted with the sight of the white body in black prosthetics . A corpo- rate lack in identity in the audience translates the will to restore native whiteness ...
... writes about the absence of Amboynese men in the text , arguing that the black out of any dark masculine faces exemplifies the challenges Dryden felt in creating his Edenic portrayal of Amboyna . Markley writes , “ Asian rulers and ...
... write a con- cise and comprehensive account of Davenant's historical connection with the New World . The exiled Charles ... writes in the first paragraphs of Oroonoko or , the Royal Slave ( 1688 ) : " we trade for feathers , which they ...
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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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