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; ed. by Geraldine Heng, Ayanna Thompson.

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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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2022 English
VerfasserIn:
Ndiaye, Noémie,
HerausgeberIn:
Heng, Geraldine,
Thompson, Ayanna,
Place / Publishing House:Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2022]
©2022
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Series:RaceB4Race: Critical Race Studies of the Premodern
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Physical Description:1 online resource (376 p.) :; 8 b&w halftones, 12 color images in a 8-page insert
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction. Performative Blackness in Early Modern Europe
  • Chapter 1 A Brief History of Baroque Black-Up: Cosmetic Blackness and Religion
  • Chapter 2 A Brief Herstory of Baroque Black-Up: Cosmetic Blackness, Gender, and Sexuality
  • Chapter 3 Blackspeak Acoustic Blackness and the Accents of Race
  • Chapter 4 Black Moves: Race, Dance, and Power
  • Post/Script Ecologies of Racial Performance
  • Appendix. Selection of Early Modern Plays Featuring Black Characters
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • Acknowledgments

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