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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... various and often disparate theoretical challenges one must address when analyzing performances of torture and performances of race. Performances of torture have been almost completely neglected theoretically. Consistently privileging ...
... various critics in order to bring to light the ways that the performances of torture have been neglected by historians and theorists. By focusing on revealing the actual use of torture, these critics construct themselves as combating ...
... various torturers justified their actions. Historical analyses of the “Dynamics of Torture,” Conroy argues, should force modern societies to challenge all justifications for torture because they allow it to become “the perfect crime ...
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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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