Performing race and torture on the early modern stage
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Performing race and torture on the early modern stage
(Routledge studies in Renaissance literature and culture, 9)
Routledge, c2008
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [163]-170) and index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
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.
目次
Illustrations. Acknowledgments 1. Interrogating Torture and Finding Race 2. A Matter that is No Matter: Religion, Color, and the White Actress in The Empress of Morocco and Xerxes 3. When Race is Colored: Abjection and Racial Characterization in Titus Andronicus and Oroonoko 4. Racializing Civility: The Indian Emperour, or The Conquest of Mexico by the Spaniards 5. Racializing Mercantilism: Amboyna: or, The Cruelties of the Dutch to the English Merchants 6. Combating Historical Amnesia: On the Images of Prisoner Abuse from Abu Ghraib. Notes. Bibliography. Index
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