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Staging Blackness and Performing Whiteness in Eighteenth-Century German Drama (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Staging Blackness and Performing Whiteness in Eighteenth-Century German Drama (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Focusing on eighteenth-century cultural productions, Wendy
Sutherland examines how representations of race in philosophy,
anthropology, aesthetics, drama, and court painting influenced the
construction of a white bourgeois German self. Sutherland positions
her work within the framework of the transatlantic slave trade,
showing that slavery, colonialism, and the triangular trade between
Europe, West Africa, and the Caribbean function as the global stage
on which German bourgeois dramas by Friedrich Wilhelm Ziegler,
Ernst Lorenz Rathlef, and Theodor Koerner (and a novella by
Heinrich von Kleist on which Koerner's play was based) were
performed against a backdrop of philosophical and anthropological
influences. Plays had an important role in educating the rising
bourgeois class in morality, Sutherland argues, with fathers and
daughters offered as exemplary moral figures in contrast to the
depraved aristocracy. At the same time, black female protagonists
in nontraditional dramas represent the boundaries of physical
beauty and marriage eligibility while also complicating ideas of
moral beauty embodied in the concept of the beautiful soul. Her
book offers convincing evidence that the eighteenth-century German
stage grappled with the representation of blackness during the Age
of Goethe, even though the German states were neither colonial
powers nor direct participants in the slave trade.
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