Ayanna Thompson

Performing Race and Torture on the Early Modern Stage (eBook, PDF)

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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: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. September 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135908553
• Artikelnr.: 39909767

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