Staging Blackness and Performing Whiteness in Eighteenth-Century German Drama

ISBN-13: 9780367878986 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 280 str.

Wendy Sutherland

Opis

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

Spis treści

Contents: Prologue; Introduction; Race in 18th-century Germany; Slavery, colonialism, and the 18th-century global stage; ’Looking at the overlooked’: stage properties and the table in Karl Lessing’s Die Mätresse (1780) excursus: the Court Moor and 18th-century court painting; The construction of whiteness in 18th-century bourgeois drama; Race, doubles, and foils: staging blackness in Friedrich Wilhelm Ziegler’s Die Mohrinn (1801); Race, homosocial desire, and the black in Ernst Lorenz Rathlef’s Die Mohrinn zu Hamburg (1775); Reading in the dark? Racial hierarchy and miscegenation in Heinrich von Kleist’s 'Die Verlobung in St. Domingo' (1811) and Theodor Körner’s Toni (1812); Epilogue; Bibliography; Index.

O autorze

Wendy Sutherland is Associate Professor of German at New College of Florida, USA.