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Staging Blackness provides a multifaceted look at how Blackness has been staged in Germany from the eighteenth century, the birth of German national theater, until the present. In recent years, the German stage has been at the forefront of discussions about race, from cases of blackface to fights for better representation within the professional community. These debates frequently invoke larger discussions about the politics of race in German theater and their origins, and beyond. Written by scholars and theater professionals with a wide variety of historical and theoretical expertise, the chapters seek to explore the connections between the German discourse on national theater and emerging ideas about race, analyze how dramaturges deal with older representations of Blackness in current productions, and discuss the contributions Black German playwrights and dramaturges have made to this discourse. Historians question how these plays were staged in their time, while cultural studies scholars contemplate how to interpret the function of race in these plays and how they can continue to be staged today.

German drama --- Theater --- Black people in literature. --- Human skin color in literature. --- Race in literature. --- History and criticism. --- History.

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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 Korner (and a novella by Heinrich von Kleist on which Korner'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.0Her 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.

Blacks in literature. --- Blacks in literature. --- Deutsch. --- Drama. --- German drama --- German drama. --- Human skin color in literature. --- Human skin color in literature. --- Race in literature. --- Race in literature. --- Theater --- Theater. --- Whites in literature. --- Whites in literature. --- History and criticism. --- History --- 1700-1799. --- Germany.

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Race in literature --- Afro-Americans in literature --- Blacks in literature --- American literature --- African Americans in literature --- Human skin color in literature --- Whites in literature --- White in literature --- White authors --- History and criticism --- American literature - White authors - History and criticism

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In 'Shades of Difference', Sujata Iyengar explores the cultural mythologies of skin color in a period during which colonial expansion and the slave trade introduced Britons to more dark-skinned persons than at any other time in their history.

Blacks in literature. --- Blacks in literature. --- Difference (Psychology) in literature. --- Difference (Psychology) in literature. --- English literature --- English literature --- Human skin color in literature. --- Human skin color in literature. --- Human skin color --- Human skin color --- Literature and society --- Literature and society --- Literature and society. --- Mythology in literature. --- Mythology in literature. --- Race in literature. --- Race in literature. --- Race relations. --- Early modern. --- History and criticism --- Social aspects --- Social aspects. --- History --- History --- 1500-1700. --- England --- England --- England. --- Race relations --- History --- Race relations --- History

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First Published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

American fiction --- Skin in literature. --- Identity (Psychology) in literature. --- Human skin color in literature. --- Human body in literature. --- Touch in literature. --- Body, Human, in literature --- Human figure in literature --- History and criticism. --- Acker, Kathy, --- Woolf, Virginia, --- Pynchon, Thomas --- Ellison, Ralph. --- Pinchon, Tomas --- Fear, Clay, --- Black Tarantula, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Acker, Kathy