Repertoires of Slavery

Dutch Theater Between Abolitionism and Colonial Subjection, 1770-1810

Sarah Adams (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

258 Seiten

2025
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-041-18534-5 (ISBN)

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Through the lens of a hitherto unstudied repertoire of Dutch abolitionist theatre productions, Repertoires of Slavery prises open the conflicting ideological functions of antislavery discourse within and outside the walls of the theatre and examines the ways in which abolitionist protesters wielded the strife-ridden question of slavery to negotiate the meanings of human rights, subjecthood, and subjection. The book explores how dramatic visions of antislavery provided a site for (re)mediating a white metropolitan—and at times a specifically Dutch—identity. It offers insight into the late-eighteenth- and early-nineteenth-century theatrical modes, tropes, and scenarios of racialised subjection and considers them as materials of the “Dutch cultural archive,” or the Dutch “reservoir” of sentiments, knowledge, fantasies, and beliefs about race and slavery that have shaped the dominant sense of the Dutch self up to the present day.

Sarah J. Adams holds a Ph.D. in Dutch Literature (Ghent University, 2020). Her postdoctoral project Blackface Burlesques, funded by the Research Foundation – Flanders, investigates the scenarios, tropes, and techniques used to design and represent “Blackness” on the comic stage of the Low Countries before the heyday of minstrel culture.

Acknowledgements, List of Figures, Introduction, 1. Dutch Politics, the Slavery-Based Economy, and Theatrical Culture in 1800, 2. Suffering Victims: Slavery, Sympathy, and White Self-Glorification, 3. Contented Fools: Ridiculing and Re-Commercializing Slavery, 4. Black Rebels: Slavery, Human Rights, and the Legitimacy of Resistance, 5. Conclusions, Bibliography, Consulted Archives, Collections, and Databases, Literature, Appendix.

Erscheinungsdatum	03.12.2025
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	480 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Wirtschaftsgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-041-18534-0 / 1041185340
ISBN-13	978-1-041-18534-5 / 9781041185345
Zustand	Neuware