- Description
- 1 online resource (pages cm)
- Summary
- "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"--
- Series Statement
- Raceb4race: critical race studies of the premodern
- Uniform Title
- Scripts of blackness (Online)
- Raceb4race.
- Alternative Title
- Scripts of blackness (Online)
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- LCCN
- 2022000555
- OCLC
- ssj0002836273
- Author
Ndiaye, Noémie.
- Title
Scripts of blackness [electronic resource] : early modern performance culture and the making of race / Noémie Ndiaye.
- Imprint
Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2022]
- Edition
1st edition.
- Series
Raceb4race: critical race studies of the premodern
Raceb4race.
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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