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January 2016: 272pp

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TABLE OF CONTENTS:

Contents: Prologue; Introduction; Race in 18th-centuryGermany; Slavery, colonialism, and the 18th-century globalstage; ’Looking at the overlooked’: stage properties and thetable in Karl Lessing’s Die Mätresse (1780) excursus: theCourt Moor and 18th-century court painting; The constructionof whiteness in 18th-century bourgeois drama; Race, doubles,and foils: staging blackness in Friedrich Wilhelm Ziegler’s DieMohrinn (1801); Race, homosocial desire, and the black inErnst Lorenz Rathlef’s Die Mohrinn zu Hamburg (1775);Reading in the dark? Racial hierarchy and miscegenation inHeinrich von Kleist’s 'Die Verlobung in St. Domingo' (1811)and Theodor Körner’s Toni (1812); Epilogue; Bibliography;Index.

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Staging Blackness andPerforming Whitenessin Eighteenth-CenturyGerman DramaWendy Sutherland

Focusing on eighteenth-century cultural production,Wendy Sutherland argues that German bourgeois dramasby Friedrich Wilhelm Ziegler, Ernst Lorenz Rathlef, Heinrichvon Kleist, Theodor Körner (and a novella by Heinrich vonKleist on which Körner's play was based) played a significantrole in constructing whiteness. Situated within theframework of the transatlantic slave trade, her book showsthat the eighteenth-century German stage engaged withthe representation of blackness, even though the Germanstates were neither colonial powers nor direct participantsin the slave trade.

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