Performing Race and Torture on the Early Modern Stage

Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext Ayanna Thompson re-evaluates the development of racial constructions in seventeenth-century England through an examination of popular theatrical depictions of torture. Zusammenfassung Ayanna Thompson re-evaluates the development of racial constructions in seventeenth-century England through an examination of popular theatrical depictions of torture. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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

Product details

• Authors: Ayanna Thompson, Ayanna (Arizona State University Thompson, Thompson Ayanna
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 02.08.2007
• EAN: 9780415957212
• ISBN: 978-0-415-95721-2
• No. of pages: 192
• Series: Routledge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture; Routledge Studies in Renaissan; Routledge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Freedom, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Penology, PERFORMING ARTS / General, Literary studies: general, Literary theory, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, Penology and punishment, Political oppression and persecution, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General