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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... discussion of the Theatre of Cruelty, Artaud explicitly linked depictions of cruelty/torture with depictions of racialized subjects. The intersection of these events and depictions was chosen, Artaud explained, “because of its immediacy ...
... discussion of race works well for the seventeenth-century moment I am analyzing. In fact, I think it is possible to ... discussing theatrical depictions of race, then, I would add to this definition the notion that a racialized ...
... discussing torture, I am intentionally applying a very limited definition. Because Article 1 of the United Nation's ... discuss the multifaceted nature of torture:4 feminist human rights advocates, for example, have recently argued to ...
... discuss torture without discussing the construction and depiction of race. Iinclude a discussion of early modern English constructions of torture in order to demonstrate how often anxieties about nationality were folded into the ...
... discuss the uncomfortable, and potentially politically dangerous, subject matter.11 And yet, torture does not exist ... discussion of the performativity of torture, however, is completely reserved for the performative aspects of actual ...
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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 |