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Title: Scripts of Blackness Condition: New EAN: 9781512826074 ISBN: 9781512826074 Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press Format: Paperback Release Date: 27/02/2024 Language: English Country/Region of Manufacture: US Item Height: 9mm Item Length: 6mm Genre: Music Dance & Theatre Book Series: RaceB4Race: Critical Race Studies of the Premodern Description: 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. In this book, Noémie 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. Those metaphorical strains, the titular scripts of blackness of this book, operated across national borders and constituted resources, as they provided spectators and participants with new ways of thinking about the Afro-diasporic people who lived or could/would ultimately live in their midst. Those scripts were often gendered and hinged on notions of demonization, exclusion, exploitation, animalization, commodification, sexualization, consensual enslavement, misogynoir, infantilization, and evocative association with other racialized minorities. Scripts of Blackness attempts to grasp the stories that Western Europeans told themselves through performative blackness, and the effects of those fictions on early modern Afro-diasporic subjects. Subtitle: Early Modern Performance Culture and the Making of Race ISBN-10: 1512826073 Author: Noémie Ndiaye Contributor: Geraldine Heng (Series edited by), Ayanna Thompson (Series edited by) Topic: Literary Criticism, Society & Culture, Social Sciences Release Year: 2024 Missing Information?
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