Editorial: University of Pennsylvania Press
Colección: RaceB4Race: Critical Race Studies of the Premodern
Número de páginas: 376 págs.
Fecha de edición: 01-02-2024
EAN: 9781512826074
ISBN: 978-1-5128-2607-4
Precio (sin IVA): 34,75 €
Precio (IVA incluído): 36,14 €
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.