Scripts of Blackness: Early Modern Performance Culture and the Making of Race by Ndiaye, Noémie
Scripts of Blackness: Early Modern Performance Culture and the Making of Race by Ndiaye, Noémie

Scripts of Blackness: Early Modern Performance Culture and the Making of Race

Scripts of Blackness shows how the early modern mass media of theatre and performance culture at-large helped...
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Author: Noémie Ndiaye
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Language: English
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Scripts of Blackness: Early Modern Performance Culture and the Making of Race by Ndiaye, Noémie

Scripts of Blackness: Early Modern Performance Culture and the Making of Race

CHF 51.45
Scripts of Blackness: Early Modern Performance Culture and the Making of Race by Ndiaye, Noémie

Scripts of Blackness: Early Modern Performance Culture and the Making of Race

CHF 51.45
Author: Noémie Ndiaye
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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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.

Author: Noémie Ndiaye
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 02/27/2024
Pages: 376
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.21lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.84d
ISBN: 9781512826074

About the Author
Noémie Ndiaye is Associate Professor of English at the University of Chicago.
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