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Ayanna Thompson

Performing Race and Torture on the Early Modern Stage

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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 vi… Mehr

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Produktdetails


  • ISBN: 978-1-135-90854-6
  • EAN: 9781135908546
  • Produktnummer: 16953638
  • Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
  • Seitenangabe: 192 S.
  • Plattform: EPUB
  • Abbildungen: 18 schwarz-weiße Fotos

Über den Autor


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.

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