Race and the Body in Early Modern Drama and Culture

该项目与伦敦国王学院和莎士比亚环球剧院合作，寻求对早期现代英格兰身体及其与种族关系的批判性研究的紧急修订。在Gordon McMullan（伦敦国王学院）和Farah Karim-Cooper（莎士比亚环球剧院）概述的项目的基础上，它还将试图评估早期现代种族身体概念的恢复，以分析莎士比亚和早期现代戏剧的当代表演的价值。理解种族和身体之间关系的关键是分析宗教和性别等社会类别的进一步作用，特别是因为这些类别不是明确的，而是“多孔和流动的”。事实上，金·f·霍尔（Kim F. Hall）和乔伊斯·格林·麦克唐纳（Joyce Green MacDonald）等评论家已经注意到，在近代早期的英国，对种族、民族、宗教、性别和性行为的关注是分层的。通过跨学科和交叉的方法，该项目将通过分层方法（如批判种族理论和历史现象学）推进该领域，以重新考虑我们目前对早期现代种族身体理论的批判性理解。该项目的第一个目的是质疑早期现代英语躯体理论在多大程度上具有“规范”身体的概念，以及这是如何被用来建立种族和文化差异的。在此基础上，我将质疑当前对早期现代身体的批评在多大程度上继续假设白色是“身体”的普遍条件。尽管躯体差异在现代早期就被认为是一种确认与欧洲白人身体的差异和劣等性的方式，但批评直到最近才开始质疑这种白人本质上是种族化的。利用批判种族理论，白人研究和早期现代研究来重新审视对早期现代身体的现有批评，该项目旨在将身体与种族的关系置于其问题的中心，以避免谈论身体本质上是白人的方式-推进我们目前关于早期现代种族的问题范围，它与身体的关系以及这一时期文学作品中这种关系的表现。

Working collaboratively with King's College London and Shakespeare's Globe, this project seeks an urgent revision of the critical study of the body and its relationship to race in early modern England. Building on the project outlined by Gordon McMullan (King's College London) and Farah Karim-Cooper (Shakespeare's Globe), it will also attempt to assess the value of a recuperation of early modern notions of the racial body for the analysis of contemporary performance of Shakespearean and early modern drama. Essential to this understanding of the relationship between race and the body will be the analysis of the further role of social categories such as religion and gender, especially as these categories are not distinct but 'porous and mobile'. Indeed, critics such as Kim F. Hall and Joyce Green MacDonald have drawn attention to the manner in which concerns about race, ethnicity, religion, gender and sexuality were layered in early modern England. Through an interdisciplinary and intersectional approach, this project will advance the field by layering methodologies such as critical race theory and historical phenomenology in order to reconsider our current critical understanding of early modern theories of the racial body. The first aim of this project is to question to what extent early modern English somatic theory had a concept of the 'normative' body, and in what ways this was used to establish racial and cultural difference. Following on from this, I will question to what extent current criticism on the early modern body has continued to assume that whiteness is a universal condition of 'the body'. Although somatic alterity has long been recognised in the early modern period as a way of confirming difference from and typically inferiority to the white, European body, criticism has only recently begun to interrogate the construction of this whiteness as inherently racialised. Utilising Critical Race Theory, Whiteness studies and early modern studies to revisit existing criticism on the early modern body, this project aims to place the body's relationship to race at the centre of its questions in ways that resist talking about the body as intrinsically white - advancing the current scope of our questions about early modern race, its relationship to the body and the representation of this relationship in the period's literature.