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Staging habla de negros : radical performances of the African diaspora in early modern Spain
\"An interdisciplinary exploration of white appropriations of black African voices in Spanish theater from the 1500s through the 1700s\"--Provided by publisher.
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Performance reconstruction and Spanish golden age drama : reviving and revising the comedia
\"Taking into account the ephemeral nature of performance, this book develops innovative approaches to the reconstruction of historical staging practices through the lens of Spanish classical theater. Vidler emphasizes the need to take into account not only structures of culture, but also the human capacity to manipulate those structures for both individual and group expression. Through a detailed analysis of approaches to space, the body, the stage object, and the spectator in the comedia, it is possible to discern analyzable artifacts that permit us to reconstruct significant aspects of early modern stagings. Furthermore, because it actively engages and intertwines both objective and subjective modes of interpretation, Vidler argues that performance theory itself will be the locus of the next breakthroughs in interpretive studies\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Rural Revisions of Golden Age Drama
This work focuses on rural community versions of Spanish Early Modern Theatre and deals with cultural heritage and the contemporary impact of Golden Age theatre on local rural communities. To this end, I examine the burgeoning of annual rural Golden Age theatre festivals that generate site-centered, non-professional productions of the plays, and revisit the conflict between tradition and innovation, between popular and high culture between authority of literary heritage and the people's right to the canon. The selection of Early Modern plays set in actual Spanish communities—Fuenteovejuna, El Alcalde de Zalamea, Numancia and Los tres blasones de España—renders an overview of the effect of these important works on their respective communities and focuses on the theatrical festivals as peripheral, subaltern, hybrid cultural phenomena. I take into consideration not only traditional and significant studies on these four renowned plays, but recent theories on staging, performance and popular reception and agency. The research involved crosses traditional disciplinary boundaries between literature, history, geography, and politics by centering on the appropriation and re-examination of a past that is continuously revised through contemporary performance, and which is adjusted to fit the needs and desires of the context in which it is interpreted. This diachronic approach allows for a new perspective on contemporary performances which question cultural politics, redefine tradition and transcend geo-political boundaries.
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Staging Habla de Negros
In this volume, Nicholas R. Jones analyzes white appropriations of black African voices in Spanish theater from the 1500s through the 1700s, when the performance of Africanized Castilian, commonly referred to as habla de negros (black speech), was in vogue. Focusing on Spanish Golden Age theater and performative poetry from authors such as Calderón de la Barca, Lope de Rueda, and Rodrigo de Reinosa, Jones makes a strong case for revising the belief, long held by literary critics and linguists, that white appropriations and representations of habla de negros language are \"racist buffoonery\" or stereotype. Instead, Jones shows black characters who laugh, sing, and shout, ultimately combating the violent desire of white supremacy. By placing early modern Iberia in conversation with discourses on African diaspora studies, Jones showcases how black Africans and their descendants who built communities in early modern Spain were rendered legible in performative literary texts. Accessibly written and theoretically sophisticated, Jones's groundbreaking study elucidates the ways that habla de negros animated black Africans' agency, empowered their resistance, and highlighted their African cultural retentions. This must-read book on identity building, performance, and race will captivate audiences across disciplines.
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Golden age drama in contemporary Spain
This jargon-free book on Spanish classical theatre is the first monograph to examine this rich dramatic tradition in terms of modern-day performance.
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Staging Habla de Negros
In this volume, Nicholas R. Jones analyzes white appropriations
of black African voices in Spanish theater from the 1500s through
the 1700s, when the performance of Africanized Castilian, commonly
referred to as habla de negros (black speech), was in
vogue.
Focusing on Spanish Golden Age theater and performative poetry
from authors such as Calderón de la Barca, Lope de Rueda, and
Rodrigo de Reinosa, Jones makes a strong case for revising the
belief, long held by literary critics and linguists, that white
appropriations and representations of habla de negros
language are \"racist buffoonery\" or stereotype. Instead, Jones
shows black characters who laugh, sing, and shout, ultimately
combating the violent desire of white supremacy. By placing early
modern Iberia in conversation with discourses on African diaspora
studies, Jones showcases how black Africans and their descendants
who built communities in early modern Spain were rendered legible
in performative literary texts.
Accessibly written and theoretically sophisticated, Jones's
groundbreaking study elucidates the ways that habla de
negros animated black Africans' agency, empowered their
resistance, and highlighted their African cultural retentions. This
must-read book on identity building, performance, and race will
captivate audiences across disciplines.
eBook
Immaculate Conceptions
Immaculate Conceptions examines devotional writings, religious and literary texts, and visual art that feature the mystery of the immaculacy of the Virgin Mary in the culture of early modern Spain. The author’s analysis is motivated by the complexity and multivalent capacity of the doctrine and its icon at a time when the debates around Mary’s conception imbued all levels of religious and social life. She considers the many interests – political, doctrinal, artistic, and gender-driven – that intersect and compete in the exegesis and textual and visual representations of the Immaculate Conception. She argues that the Immaculate Conception of Mary proved to be a fertile conceptual and ideological field wherein the identities of the Spanish state, local communities, and individuals were negotiated, variously defined, and contested.
The study’s broader aim is to delineate a speculative category, the religious imagination, defined as a spiritual, intellectual, or artistic pursuit in which the individual is committed to sacred truth yet articulates this truth through contingent, partial, and contextually determined theological propositions. The representational status of the image and its relationship to theories of physical sight and spiritual vision are central to the author’s formulation of this category.
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