Ayanna Thompson

Performing Race and Torture on the Early Modern Stage

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Produktbeschreibung

Ayanna Thompson re-evaluates the development of racial constructions in seventeenth-century England through an examination of popular theatrical depictions of torture.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 176
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Januar 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 150mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 272g
• ISBN-13: 9780415875684
• ISBN-10: 0415875684
• Artikelnr.: 27349556

Autorenporträt

Ayanna Thompson in Assistant Professor of English and Women and Gender Studies at Arizona State University. Her edited collection, Colorblind Shakespeare: New Perspectives on Race and Performance, was published by Routledge in 2007.

Inhaltsangabe

Illustrations. Acknowledgments 1. Interrogating Torture and Finding Race 2.
A Matter that is No Matter: Religion, Color, and the White Actress in The
Empress of Morocco and Xerxes 3. When Race is Colored: Abjection and Racial
Characterization in Titus Andronicus and Oroonoko 4. Racializing Civility:
The Indian Emperour, or The Conquest of Mexico by the Spaniards 5.
Racializing Mercantilism: Amboyna: or, The Cruelties of the Dutch to the
English Merchants 6. Combating Historical Amnesia: On the Images of
Prisoner Abuse from Abu Ghraib. Notes. Bibliography. Index