Noémie Ndiaye

Scripts of Blackness

Early Modern Performance Culture and the Making of Race
Herausgeber: Heng, Geraldine; Thompson, Ayanna

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Produktbeschreibung

"Scripts of Blackness: Early Modern Performance Culture and the Making of Race 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, Noâemie 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"--

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Seitenzahl: 376
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. September 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 150mm x 33mm
• Gewicht: 680g
• ISBN-13: 9781512822632
• ISBN-10: 1512822639
• Artikelnr.: 63871058

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

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