Performing race and torture on the early modern stage
By: Ayanna Thompson
Series: Routledge studies in Renaissance literature and culture -- 9
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 174
ISBN-13: 9780415957212
Subjects: English drama -- 17th century -- History and criticism; Race in literature; Torture in literature; Other (Philosophy) in literature
Description: Reading Restoration plays through a performance theory lens 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 163-170) and index
Table of contents: title: Interrogating torture and finding race; title: A matter that is no matter : religion, color, and the white actress in The empress of Morocco and Xerxes; title: When race is colored : abjection and racial characterization in Titus Andronicus and Oroonoko; title: Racializing civility : The Indian emperour, or, The conquest of Mexico by the Spaniards; title: Racializing mercantilism : Amboyna, or, The cruelties of the Dutch to the English merchants; title: Combating historical amnesia : on the images of prisoner abuse from Abu Ghraib