Scripts of Blackness : early modern performance culture and the making of race /

Scripts of Blackness: Early Modern Performance Culture and the Making of Race shows how the early modern mass media of theatre and performance culture at-large helped turn blackness into a racial category, that is, into a type of difference justifying emerging social hierarchies and power relations...

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Main Author: Ndiaye, Noémie (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2022].
Series:Raceb4race.
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Summary:Scripts of Blackness: Early Modern Performance Culture and the Making of Race shows how the early modern mass media of theatre and performance culture at-large helped turn blackness into a racial category, that is, into a type of difference justifying emerging social hierarchies and power relations in a new world order driven by colonialism and capitalism. In this book, Noémie Ndiaye explores the techniques of impersonation used by white performers to represent Afro-diasporic people in England, France and Spain in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, using a comparative and transnational framework. She reconstructs three specific performance techniques-black-up (cosmetic blackness), blackspeak (acoustic blackness) and black dances (kinetic blackness), in order to map out the poetics of those techniques, and track a number of metaphorical strains that early modern playtexts regularly associated with them.
Physical Description:358 pages, [8] pages of color plates : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781512822632
1512822639