Performing Race and Torture on the Early Modern StageRoutledge, 13 wrz 2013 - 192 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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... body of an African American male, propped in a rocking chair, blood-splattered clothes, with dark paint applied to face, circular disks glued to cheeks, cotton glued to face and head, shadow of man using rod to prop up the victim's head ...
... body, for example? Despite the fact that Artaud imagined the sight ofthe tortured body would elicit sympathy, Montezuma's body made abject on the rack could nonetheless elicit a number of less generous responses, including fetishization ...
... body for the more illusive performative nature of identity. In addition, because staged scenes of torture invite the audience to see something that is normally hidden — the victim's tortured body — they allow the audience to ponder the ...
... bodies” (55). Thus, a racialized epistemology does not necessarily have to be based on a semiotically charged ... body. The actual employment of torture in early modern England exemplifies the fear of the hidden thought and secret ...
... Body in Pain, theorizes the deconstructive nature of torture. She argues that “Physical pain...is language-destroying. Torture inflicts bodily pain that is itself languagedestroying, but torture also mimes (objectifies in the external ...
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Religion Color and the White Actress in The Empress of Morocco and Xerxes | 25 |
Abjection and Racial Characterization in Titus Andronicus and Oroonoko | 51 |
The Indian Emperour or The Conquest of Mexico by the Spaniards | 75 |
Amboyna or The Cruelties of the Dutch to the English Merchants | 99 |
On the Images of Prisoner Abuse from Abu Ghraib | 121 |
Notes | 147 |
Bibliography | 163 |
Index | 171 |