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Staging Blackness and Performing Whiteness in Eighteenth-Century German Drama

Staging Blackness and Performing Whiteness in Eighteenth-Century German Drama

Sutherland, Wendy

Hardcover

Literary CriticismGeneral DramaPlays

ISBN10: 1409424022
ISBN13: 9781409424024
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Jan 6 2016
Pages: 272
Weight: 1.25
Height: 0.69 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

Focusing on eighteenth-century cultural production, Wendy Sutherland examines how representations of blackness in philosophy, anthropology, aesthetics, drama, and court painting influenced the construction of the white bourgeois German self. Sutherland argues that German bourgeois dramas, such as those by Friedrich Wilhelm Ziegler, Ernst Lorenz Rathlef, Theodor Körner (and a novella by Heinrich von Kleist on which Körner's play was based) played a significant role in constructing whiteness by using the black female protagonist to set the boundaries of physical beauty while complicating ideas of moral beauty. Situated within the framework of the transatlantic slave trade, her book offers convincing evidence that the eighteenth-century German stage engaged with the representation of blackness, even though the German states were neither colonial powers nor direct participants in the slave trade.　

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