| Series |
Raceb4race: critical race studies of the premodern
Raceb4race. ^A1439135
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| Contents |
Introduction: Performative blackness in early modern Europe -- A brief history of baroque black-up: cosmetic blackness and religion -- A brief herstory of baroque black-up: cosmetic blackness, gender, and sexuality -- Blackspeak: acoustic blackness and the accents of race -- Black moves: race, dance, and power -- Post/script: Ecologies of racial performance. |
| Abstract |
"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, 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"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Genre/form | History. |
| LCCN | 2022000555 |
| ISBN | 9781512822632 hardcover |
| ISBN | 1512822639 hardcover |
