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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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Philadelphia :
University of Pennsylvania Press,
[2022].
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| 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. |
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| Physical Description: | 358 pages, [8] pages of color plates : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781512822632 1512822639 |