Scripts of blackness : early modern performance culture and the making of race

Scripts of blackness : early modern performance culture and the making of race / Noémie Ndiaye.

Scripts of Blackness 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...

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Main Author: Ndiaye, Noémie (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2022]
Series:Raceb4race.
JSTOR ebook purchased.
Subjects:
Race in the theater > Europe, Western > History > 16th century.
Race in the theater > Europe, Western > History > 17th century.
Impersonation > History > 16th century.
Impersonation > History > 17th century.
Blackface > Europe, Western > History > 16th century.
Blackface > Europe, Western > History > 17th century.
Theater > Europe, Western > History > 16th century.
Theater > Europe, Western > History > 17th century.
Drama > 15th and 16th centuries > History and criticism.
Drama > 17th century > History and criticism.
Drama > 18th century > History and criticism.
Black people in literature.
Electronic resources (E-books)
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Click to view e-book
Holy Cross Note:This was purchased from JSTOR with an unlimited, DRM-free license.
Electronic access restricted to members of the Holy Cross community.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Performative blackness in early modern Europe
  • A brief history of baroque black-up: cosmetic blackness and religion
  • A brief herstory of baroque black-up: cosmetic blackness, gender, and sexuality
  • Blackspeak: acoustic blackness and the accents of race
  • Black moves: race, dance, and power
  • Post/script: Ecologies of racial performance.

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