Staging Whiteness - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Staging Whiteness write by Mary F. Brewer. This book was released on 2005-07-29. Staging Whiteness available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. How whiteness is portrayed in contemporary drama and enacted in everyday life.
Staging Blackness and Performing Whiteness in Eighteenth-Century German Drama
Staging Blackness and Performing Whiteness in Eighteenth-Century German Drama - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Staging Blackness and Performing Whiteness in Eighteenth-Century German Drama write by Wendy Sutherland. This book was released on 2017-05-15. Staging Blackness and Performing Whiteness in Eighteenth-Century German Drama available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Focusing on eighteenth-century cultural productions, Wendy Sutherland examines how representations of race in philosophy, anthropology, aesthetics, drama, and court painting influenced the construction of a white bourgeois German self. Sutherland positions her work within the framework of the transatlantic slave trade, showing that slavery, colonialism, and the triangular trade between Europe, West Africa, and the Caribbean function as the global stage on which German bourgeois dramas by Friedrich Wilhelm Ziegler, Ernst Lorenz Rathlef, and Theodor Körner (and a novella by Heinrich von Kleist on which Körner's play was based) were performed against a backdrop of philosophical and anthropological influences. Plays had an important role in educating the rising bourgeois class in morality, Sutherland argues, with fathers and daughters offered as exemplary moral figures in contrast to the depraved aristocracy. At the same time, black female protagonists in nontraditional dramas represent the boundaries of physical beauty and marriage eligibility while also complicating ideas of moral beauty embodied in the concept of the beautiful soul. Her book offers convincing evidence that the eighteenth-century German stage grappled with the representation of blackness during the Age of Goethe, even though the German states were neither colonial powers nor direct participants in the slave trade.
Staging Queer Feminisms
Staging Queer Feminisms - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Staging Queer Feminisms write by Sarah French. This book was released on 2017-04-13. Staging Queer Feminisms available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book examines sexuality, gender and race in Australia’s vibrant independent theatre and performance culture. It analyses selected feminist and queer performances that interrogate the cultural construction of sexuality and gender, challenge the normative trends of mainstream Australian society and culture and open up spaces for alternative representations of gender identity and sexual expression. Offering the first full-length study on sexuality and gender in Australian theatre since 2005, this book reveals a resurgence of feminist themes in independent performance and explores the intersection of feminist and queer politics. Ranging across drag, burlesque, cabaret, theatre and performance art, the book provides an accessible and engaging account of some of the most innovative, entertaining and politically subversive Australian theatrical works from the past decade.
Staging Blackness and Performing Whiteness in Eighteenth-Century German Drama
Staging Blackness and Performing Whiteness in Eighteenth-Century German Drama - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Staging Blackness and Performing Whiteness in Eighteenth-Century German Drama write by Wendy Sutherland. This book was released on 2017-05-15. Staging Blackness and Performing Whiteness in Eighteenth-Century German Drama available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Focusing on eighteenth-century cultural productions, Wendy Sutherland examines how representations of race in philosophy, anthropology, aesthetics, drama, and court painting influenced the construction of a white bourgeois German self. Sutherland positions her work within the framework of the transatlantic slave trade, showing that slavery, colonialism, and the triangular trade between Europe, West Africa, and the Caribbean function as the global stage on which German bourgeois dramas by Friedrich Wilhelm Ziegler, Ernst Lorenz Rathlef, and Theodor Körner (and a novella by Heinrich von Kleist on which Körner's play was based) were performed against a backdrop of philosophical and anthropological influences. Plays had an important role in educating the rising bourgeois class in morality, Sutherland argues, with fathers and daughters offered as exemplary moral figures in contrast to the depraved aristocracy. At the same time, black female protagonists in nontraditional dramas represent the boundaries of physical beauty and marriage eligibility while also complicating ideas of moral beauty embodied in the concept of the beautiful soul. Her book offers convincing evidence that the eighteenth-century German stage grappled with the representation of blackness during the Age of Goethe, even though the German states were neither colonial powers nor direct participants in the slave trade.
Coloring Whiteness
Coloring Whiteness - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Coloring Whiteness write by Faedra Chatard Carpenter. This book was released on 2014-11-12. Coloring Whiteness available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Coloring Whiteness pays homage to the ways that African American artists and performers have interrogated tropes and mythologies of whiteness to reveal racial inequalities, focusing on comedy sketches, street theater, visual art, video, TV journalism, and voice-over work since 1964. By investigating enactments of whiteness—from the use of white makeup and suggestive masks, to literary motifs and cultural narratives regarding “white” characteristics and qualities—Faedra Chatard Carpenter explores how artists have challenged commonly held notions of racial identity. Through its layered study of expressive culture, her book considers how artistic and performance strategies are used to “color” whiteness and complicate blackness in our contemporary moment. Utilizing theories of performance and critical race studies, Coloring Whiteness is also propelled by Carpenter’s dramaturgical sensibilities. Her analysis of primary performance texts is informed not only by traditional print and visual materials, but also by her interviews with African American theater artists, visual artists, and cultural critics. The book is an invaluable contribution to the fields of theater and performance studies, African American studies, cultural studies, critical race studies, and American studies.
