Racism and Early Blackface Comic Traditions

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From the Old World to the New, Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History

ISBN: 3319780476
ISBN 13: 9783319780474
Autor: Hornback, Robert
Verlag: Springer Verlag GmbH
Umfang: xiv, 324 S., 9 s/w Illustr., 324 p. 9 illus.
Erscheinungsdatum: 31.07.2018
Auflage: 1/2018
Produktform: Gebunden/Hardback
Einband: Gebunden

This book traces blackface types from ancient masks of grinning Africans and phallus-bearing Roman fools through to comedic medieval devils, the pan-European black-masked Titivillus and Harlequin, and racial impersonation via stereotypical ‚black speech‘ explored in the Renaissance by Lope de Vega and Shakespeare. Jim Crow and antebellum minstrelsy recycled Old World blackface stereotypes of irrationality, ignorance, pride, and immorality. Drawing upon biblical interpretations and philosophy, comic types from moral allegory originated supposedly modern racial stereotypes. Early blackface traditions thus spread damning race-belief that black people were less rational, hence less moral and less human. Such notions furthered the global Renaissance’s intertwined Atlantic slave and sugar trades and early nationalist movements. The latter featured overlapping definitions of race and nation, as well as of purity of blood, language, and religion in opposition to ‚Strangers‘. Ultimately, Old World beliefs still animate supposed ‚biological racism‘ and so-called ‚white nationalism‘ in the age of Trump.

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Robert Hornback is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Oglethorpe University, USA. He teaches Shakespeare, Shakespeare's Contemporaries, Medieval & Renaissance Literature, Ancient Literature, and Comedy: Ancient to Renaissance. He is the author of The English Clown Tradition from the Middle Ages to Shakespeare (2009) and has published widely on fools and comedy.

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