2011 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Why only actresses did not black up in the long eighteenth century theatre?
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21720085
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Research Field |
Literature in English
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| Research Institution | Kitami Institute of Technology |
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| Project Period (FY) |
2009 – 2011
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| Keywords | 英米文学 |
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| Research Abstract |
This study explores one core question : Why only actresses did not black up in the long eighteenth century theatre? To answer this, I examined two sets of ideas : a discourse concerning theatrical convention and aesthetic recognition of blackness ; a powerrelationship in representing women and racial others. This study has shown that racial otherness was manipulated in the long eighteenth century theatre in order to make a profit from the theatre production, and that in that theatre a mixed ideology of racism and commercialism was generated, regenerated and distributed.
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