Scripts of Blackness

Scripts of Blackness

Early Modern Performance Culture and the Making of Race

Thompson, Ayanna; Heng, Geraldine; Ndiaye, Noemie

University of Pennsylvania Press

09/2022

376

Dura

Inglês

9781512822632

15 a 20 dias

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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
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Early modern pre-modern race studies; Race Before Race; Transnational comparative approach to race; How old is blackface?; Performing race; Transhistorical Black studies; Critical Race Theory and literature; colonization; English French Spanish literature; theater stagecraft; Afro diaspora; dance; impersonation; costume; People of African Descent & Black Studies; Renaissance literary criticism; Performing Arts history and criticism