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  • Chapter 13 - The Racecraft of Romantic Stagecraft

  • Edited by Manu Samriti Chander, Georgetown University
  • Book:
    The Cambridge Companion to Romanticism and Race
    Published online:
    21 November 2024
    Print publication:
    28 November 2024, pp 227-245

  • Summary

    Yasser Khan reminds us that race, simply put, is made. It is the consequence of painstaking and deliberate work, whether in the meticulous anthropological taxonomies offered by Kant and Blumenbach, or in the line of poetry, or, as Khan argues, in the representation of racial differences on the Romantic-era stage. Drawing on the notion of “racecraft,” which “foregrounds racism as a reality that produces ‘race’ to rationalize the dispossession of wealth, power, and rights,” Khan shows how stagecraft in John Fawcett’s Obi; or Three-Finger’d Jack (1800) establishes the terms by which racialized subjects come to be understood as fundamentally exploitable.