Repertoires of Slavery: Dutch Theater Between Abolitionism and Colonial Subjection, 1770-1810

Sarah Adams

Published by Amsterdam University Press 2023

Repertoires of Slavery

Dutch Theater Between Abolitionism and Colonial Subjection, 1770-1810

Sarah Adams

https://doi.org/10.1515/9789048554829

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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.

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Adams Sarah :

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.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	1
Table of Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	5
List of Figures Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	7
Acknowledgements Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	11
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	13
1 Dutch Politics, the Slavery-Based Economy, and Theatrical Culture in 1800 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	29
2 Suffering Victims: Slavery, Sympathy, and White Self-Glorification Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	57
3 Contented Fools: Ridiculing and Re- Commercializing Slavery Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	107
4 Black Rebels: Slavery, Human Rights, and the Legitimacy of Resistance Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	155
5 Conclusions Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	203
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	211
Appendix Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	231
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Language: English
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 258
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 11
- Coloured Illustrations: 9
Keywords: (Anti-)Slavery; Theatre; Race; the Netherlands; 1800

eBook

Published: April 19, 2023
ISBN: 9789048554829