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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... race? What does it mean to adapt a play that has in some ways already formed the parameters for racial construction? In his theory, Artaud sutured over these multifaceted complexities out of a desire to create a portrait of racial ...
... race, I am indebted to the work of Michael Omi and Howard Winant in Racial ... race works well for the seventeenth-century moment I am analyzing. In fact, I ... notion that a racialized epistemology is further constructed through the ...
... notion that these legal justifications should not be permitted again. “The European law of torture was suffused with the spirit of safeguard,” Langbein writes, “yet it was never able to correct for the fundamental unreliability of ...
... notions of individual interiority and/ or subjectivity. There seems to be something more at stake in these representations, however. It is not only a notion of subjectivity that emerges but also an idea of subjectivity that is ...
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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 |