Scripts of Blackness : early modern performance culture and the making of race / Noémie Ndiaye.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ndiaye, Noémie, author.

Contributor:

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

Series:

Raceb4race

Raceb4race: critical race studies of the premodern

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Race in the theater--Europe, Western--History--16th century.

Race in the theater.

Race in the theater--Europe, Western--History--17th century.

Impersonation--History--16th century.

Impersonation.

Impersonation--History--17th century.

Blackface--Europe, Western--History--16th century.

Blackface.

Blackface--Europe, Western--History--17th century.

Theater--Europe, Western--History--16th century.

Theater.

Theater--Europe, Western--History--17th century.

Western Europe.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

358 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2022]

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"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 A Brief History of Baroque Black-Up: Cosmetic Blackness and Religion

ch. 2 A Brief Herstory of Baroque Black-Up: Cosmetic Blackness, Gender, and Sexuality

ch. 3 Blackspeak: Acoustic Blackness and the Accents of Race

ch. 4 Black Moves: Race, Dance, and Power.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

9781512822632

1512822639

OCLC:

1338675953

Publisher Number:

99993025785