Performing race and torture on the early modern stage / Ayanna Thompson.

Author
Thompson, Ayanna, 1972- [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
New York : Routledge, c2008.
Description
xii, 174 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

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    Subject(s)
    Series
    Routledge studies in Renaissance literature and culture ; 9 [More in this series]
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references (p. 163-170) and index.
    Contents
    • Interrogating torture and finding race
    • A matter that is no matter : religion, color, and the white actress in The empress of Morocco and Xerxes
    • When race is colored : abjection and racial characterization in Titus Andronicus and Oroonoko
    • Racializing civility : The Indian emperour, or, The conquest of Mexico by the Spaniards
    • Racializing mercantilism : Amboyna, or, The cruelties of the Dutch to the English merchants
    • Combating historical amnesia : on the images of prisoner abuse from Abu Ghraib.
    ISBN
    • 9780415957212 (alk. paper)
    • 0415957214 (alk. paper)
    LCCN
    2007001483
    OCLC
    80019842
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