Performing Race and Torture on the Early Modern Stage

By:

Ayanna Thompson

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Series:

Routledge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture

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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.

Author Biography:

Ayanna Thompson in Assistant Professor of English and Women and Gender Studies at Arizona State University. Her edited collection, Colorblind Shakespeare: New Perspectives on Race and Performance, was published by Routledge in 2007.

Release date Australia

January 10th, 2009

Author

Ayanna Thompson

Audiences

General (US: Trade)
Tertiary Education (US: College)

Pages

176

Series

Routledge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture

Dimensions

152x229x15

ISBN-13

9780415875684

Product ID

3580200

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