Scripts of Blackness: Early Modern Performance Culture and the Making of Race - Couverture souple

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Ndiaye, Noémie

 
9781512826074: Scripts of Blackness: Early Modern Performance Culture and the Making of Race
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ISBN 10 : 1512826073 ISBN 13 : 9781512826074
Editeur : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2024

Synopsis

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.

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. Those metaphorical strains, the titular scripts of blackness of this book, operated across national borders and constituted resources, as they provided spectators and participants with new ways of thinking about the Afro-diasporic people who lived or could/would ultimately live in their midst.

Those scripts were often gendered and hinged on notions of demonization, exclusion, exploitation, animalization, commodification, sexualization, consensual enslavement, misogynoir, infantilization, and evocative association with other racialized minorities. Scripts of Blackness attempts to grasp the stories that Western Europeans told themselves through performative blackness, and the effects of those fictions on early modern Afro-diasporic subjects.

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À propos de l'auteur

Noémie Ndiaye is Associate Professor of English at the University of Chicago.

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Éditeur
University of Pennsylvania Press
Date d'édition
2024
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1512826073
ISBN 13 
9781512826074
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
376
Coordonnées du fabricant
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ISBN 10 :  1512822639 ISBN 13 :  9781512822632
Editeur : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2022
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