Rewriting the Grand Siècle
Blackface in Early Modern France and the Historiography of Race
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12880930 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Noémie Ndiaye (0000-0003-2570-7363, University of Chicago, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 18 |
| Issue | 10 |
| Publication date | 2021-10-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Literature Compass (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1741-4113 • E-ISSN: 1741-4113 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/lic3.12603 |
| OpenAlex | W4210551867 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 8 |
This essay critiques the French cultural aversion to racial thinking which has resulted in the absence of race as a theme and analytic in French historiographic practices, especially in relation to the ancien régime . This essay argues that focusing on 17th century theater and performance culture, especially on baroque ballets and their oblique representations of Blackness and slavery through blackface, reveals a long national history of racism against Black people. This essay is a call to rewrite as an age of race‐making a period often construed as a cultural and literary golden age that still plays a central role in definitions of French heritage and identity today
Aesthetics · Art · Art history · Baroque · Blackface · Historiography · Identity (music · Jazz · Literature · Period (music · Race (biology · Relation (database · Sociology · Theme (computing · Vernacular · European Political History Analysis · Gender Studies · Historical Art and Culture Studies · Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis · History
| Citations per year | 0.5 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2024 - 2024 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |