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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... of torture and race provides the most effective way to analyze the long-standing contradictory constructions of both. In addition, it is important to emphasize that these seventeenth-century plays are not the first texts to construct race.
... importance of these early modern performances and challenge the assumed divide between pre- and post-Enlightenment racial theories. It is my hope that Performing Race and Torture on the Early Modern Stage will highlight how performances ...
... important to emphasize that torture was not a public act. Unlike scenes of punishment which often occurred in town squares as events for public entertainment/containment, torture was conducted in secrecy in dungeons, towers, and prisons ...
... important lesson is that it has not been possible to make coercion compatible with truth.”9 Similarly, John Conroy, in his recent book Unspeakable Acts, Ordinary People: The Dynamics of Torture, documents three cases of torture in the ...
... important to explore the ways a cultural history gets translated into and affected by artistic media. Literary critics, of course, have attempted to bridge the divide between cultural history and cultural productions. Early modern ...
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When Race is Colored Abjection and Racial Characterization in Titus Andronicus | |
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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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