Scripts of Blackness

Ndiaye, Noémie

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“…I would add the following play-specific evidence to Hornback's analysis: having initially expressed the desire to become a philosopher in the play's subplot, Ravenscroft's Harlequin renounces it once he understands that this vocation requires temperance. He is called “bestio, bruto, animale” by Scaramouche for this, and such animalization is in line with various scripts of Blackness that I analyze in Ndiaye, 2022.…”

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“… 39 I define and study early modern English antics and their racializing affordances in depth in Ndiaye, 2021, 145–51; Ndiaye, 2022, 214–31.…”

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“… 113 I study that trope in depth and its deployment across Western Europe in Ndiaye, 2022. Interestingly, The marriage broaker puts a spin on that trope by turning the Blackness of the enslaved African whom Friendly impersonates into a punishment for being a disloyal lover: “Once it was my lot / For to be lov'd; O most unworthy I, / For to be lov'd by one so good, so fair!…”

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Black Roma: Afro-Romani Connections in Early Modern Drama (and Beyond)

Ndiaye

2022

Renaiss. Q.

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This essay brings to light a hitherto unnoticed network of Afro-Romani connections in later seventeenth-century French and English drama, and it construes that network as conceptual and ethical genealogy for the bonds that exist today between Black studies and the fledgling field of critical Romani studies. By close reading Molière's “Les fourberies de Scapin” (1671) and its 1677 adaptation by Edward Ravenscroft, among other objects, through the lens of critical race theory, this essay shows how theatrical culture across the Channel reckoned with the similar positionings of enslaved Roma and sub-Saharan Africans within the logic of early modern white supremacy.

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“… 39 I define and study early modern English antics and their racializing affordances in depth in Ndiaye, 2021, 145–51; Ndiaye, 2022, 214–31.…”

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Black Roma: Afro-Romani Connections in Early Modern Drama (and Beyond)

Ndiaye

2022

Renaiss. Q.

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“…In her study of the medieval world, Geraldine Heng has argued that “race‐making” is a repeating tendency “to demarcate human beings through differences among humans that are selectively essentialized as absolute and fundamental” (Heng, 2018, p. 3). Through symposia and publications, scholars have mobilized the framing “RaceB4Race” to foreground how race has been constructed across premodern literature and history in Europe and beyond; in doing so, they have sought to center the work of BIPOC scholars and expand critical race theory (Arizona Center for Medieval and renaissance Studies—Chakravarty, 2022; Ndiaye, 2022; RaceB4Race, 2022). Other experts have pushed the field to avoid “neo‐colonial, neo‐Orientalist discourse” and questioned the centrality of English terms over vernacular categories while researching race in the premodern past (Pearce, 2020).…”

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Horse racing: Unnatural selection in the renaissance

Cooley

2023

History Compass

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This article uses the renaissance culture of horse racing as a window into the practices and language of breeding, artifice, and race. The popular palio racing circuit brought local and foreign horses into Italian city centers to test their speed. Racing culture, and other formal and informal competitions related to animals incentivized the development of specialized horse breeds called razze in Italian; this term is a precursor of the modern English “race.” To make these animals, renaissance patrons and animal experts engaged in unnatural selection. Their selective breeding efforts committed more to growing than weeding, aimed to create horses as works of art, branded animals so that they would be recognizable and cemented a discourse of race that emphasized the reproductive and training work of sponsored experts. This synthetic overview meditates on the transhistorical language of breeding and the consequences of excluding animals from our historical understanding of the making of the idea of race.

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“…The "nature" and "temper" of Africans make them more suitable for enslavement than other groups, meaning that the bondage of blacks would be less cruel. For studies on early modern race, see Guillaume Aubert (2004); Pierre H. Boulle (2007); Andrew S. Curran (2009Curran ( , 2011; Arlette Jouanna (1975); Mélanie Lamotte (2014), Noémie Ndiaye (2022), andApril G. Shelford (2013). For race and gender, see Elsa Dorlin (2006) and Ashley Williard (2021a).…”

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Constructing the Self Between Worlds

Kullberg

2023

Early Modern Cultural Studies 1500–1700

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This chapter shifts the attention toward another point of entanglement, namely the construction of the travelers’ self as a changing narrative category within the travel narratives. Drawing on recent research around the complex development of the notion of the self in the seventeenth century, the argument is that the self is unstable and multiple; it mediates between the space of reception (France) and the space described (the Islands). The self thus becomes a site where the effect of otherness can be traced: it becomes a narrative locus of unsettlement where the impact of early island society and its people is visible on several levels. The first section is devoted to the conditions governing travel writing in order to understand how the travelers used this strategically in their representations of the islands in terms of both distance and embodiment. The second section centers on Labat’s travelogue in order to analyze how that embodiment led to the construction of an experimental self influenced by the islands: the individual traveler’s experience becomes a way to think through the social body’s experience. The third section examines how the self negotiates encounters with others. By interrogating the figure of the commentary, it questions the construction of a discourse of ambivalence, bordering on sentimentality, with regard to enslaved peoples and enslavement as an institution. The last section looks closer at engagements with Indigenous peoples in terms of an anxiety of influence: the narratives configure that influence through style. The travelers, it claims, both underscore and distance themselves to uphold an intermediary position.

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Scripts of Blackness

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Black Roma: Afro-Romani Connections in Early Modern Drama (and Beyond)

Black Roma: Afro-Romani Connections in Early Modern Drama (and Beyond)

Horse racing: Unnatural selection in the renaissance

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