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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... England and America Circles in the Sand Jess Edwards 6. Dramatists and Their Manuscripts in the Age of Shakespeare, Jonson, Middleton and Heywood Authorship, Authority and the Playhouse Grace Ioppolo 7. Reading the Early Modern Dream ...
... England and a “RAPEIST” (sic), November 7, 2003. 6.3 The lynching of Thomas Shipp and Abram Smith, August 7, 1930, Marion, Indiana. Courtesy of the Allen-Littlefield Collection. 6.4 Abu Ghraib Prison photo of Charles Graner and Sabrina ...
Ayanna Thompson. 6.7 Abu Ghraib Prison photo taken by Charles Graner of Lynndie England with “Gus” on a leash, but with Megan Ambuhl looking on, October 24, 2003. 6.8 The bludgeoned body of an African American male, propped in a rocking ...
... England exemplifies the fear of the hidden thought and secret threat. From 1540 to 1640, when torture was used most frequently in England, heretics, traitors, and counterfeiters were the primary victims. These disparate criminal groups ...
... England, torture was used to detect secrecy within its own population. The unspoken fear that lies below the surface of this history is the belief that the heretics', traitors', and counterfeiters' Englishness served as the ideal mask ...
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A Matter that is No Matter Religion Color and the White Actress in The Empress | |
When Race is Colored Abjection and Racial Characterization in Titus Andronicus | |
Racializing Civility The Indian Emperour or The Conquest of Mexico by | |
or The Cruelties of the Dutch to the English | |
Combating Historical Amnesia On the Images of Prisoner Abuse from Abu Ghraib | |
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