Title Repertoires of Slavery Dutch Theater Between Abolitionism and Colonial Subjection, 1770-1810 Sarah Adams

Published Amsterdam Amsterdam University Press 2023

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Description 1 online resource (258 pages) illustrations Contents Cover -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1. Dutch Politics, the Slavery-Based Economy, and Theatrical Culture in 1800 -- A Golden Age? -- Economic Downturns and Political Uprisings -- Dutch Abolitionism and Resistance in the Colonies -- The Politics and Aesthetics of Dutch Theater -- 2. Suffering Victims: Slavery, Sympathy, and White Self-Glorification -- Selico and the Pattern of the Disrupted West African Family -- Plantation Testimonies and Sympathy Rewarded in De negers -- Kraspoekol, the Colonial Oikos, and the Bildung of the White Hero Antislavery as a "Window of Opportunity" -- 3. Contented Fools: Ridiculing and Re-Commercializing Slavery -- Blacking-Up around 1800 -- "A Black needs little to enjoy his life" -- Subversion and Spectacle in Pantalon, Oost-Indisch planter -- Zabi, or Early Blackface Burlesque in Paulus en Virginia -- The Repertoire of Slavery, Minstrelsy, and Black Pete -- 4. Black Rebels: Slavery, Human Rights, and the Legitimacy of Resistance -- Monzongo and the Justified Revolt against Spanish Tyranny -- Imagining the Haitian Revolution and the Black Spartacus in De blanke en de zwarte The Batavian Temple of Liberty -- A Pedestal for Raynal? -- 5. Conclusions -- Bibliography -- Appendix -- 1 Antislavery Plays Published in the Netherlands, 1770-1810 -- 2 Performances of the Dutch "Repertoire of Slavery" -- Index -- List of Figures -- Figure 1 Colored engraving for Jean-Pierre C. de Florian, "Selico, eene Afrikaansche geschiedenis," in Nieuwe vertellingen van den heer M. Florian, trans. Daniël Vrijdag (The Hague: J.C. Leeuwenstijn, 1801). We see the three brothers taking care of their Figure 2 Engraving by Quirinus van Amelsfoort for Adriaan van der Willigen's Selico (Haarlem: Jan van Walré, 1794). Selico and Berissa are freed from the stake, and Faruhlo is depicted kneeling in front of Trura Audati, who sits on his royal throne. The -- Figure 3 Costume design for an "African Sovereign" ("Afrikaansch Vorst") by Leerzaam Vermaak (ca. 1785-1817) Figure 4 Engraving for August von Kotzebue, Die Negersklaven: Ein historisch-dramatisches Gemählde in drey Akten (Leipzig: Kummer, 1796). The engraving depicts the kneeling mother, pointing at her chest to show how she pierced her baby's heart with a nai -- Figure 5 Engraving for Dirk van Hogendorp's Kraspoekol, of de slaaverny (Delft: M. Roelofswaert, 1800). Tjampakka in the middle, with half of the plate in her hands as proof that the plate was already broken. -- Figure 6 Pencil drawing by Jan Brandes (1782-1783). The enslaved girl Roosje and Brandes's son, Jantje, in an office in Batavia Summary Through the lens of a hitherto unstudied repertoire of Dutch abolitionist theatre productions, <cite>Repertoires of Slavery</cite> 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 Analysis History, Art History, and Archaeology HIS Cultural Studies CULTURAL Early Modern Studies EARLY MOD Festivals, Theatre, and Performance FEST TTR & PERF Literary Theory, Criticism, and History LIT Sociology and Social History SOC & HIS (Anti-)Slavery, Theatre, Race, the Netherlands, 1800 Notes "Amsterdam University Press" Acknowledgements List of Figures Table of Content 0. Introduction 1. Dutch Politics, the Slavery-Based Economy, and Theatrical Culture in 1800 2. Suffering Victims: Slavery, Sympathy, and White Self-Glorification 3. Contented Fools: Ridiculing and Re-Commercializing Slavery 4. Black Rebels: Slavery, Human Rights, and the Legitimacy of Resistance 5. Conclusions Bibliography Consulted Archives, Collections, and Databases Literature Appendix Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Vendor-supplied metadata Subject Theater and society -- Netherlands -- History -- 18th century Theater and society -- Netherlands -- History -- 19th century Antislavery movements -- Netherlands -- History -- 18th century Antislavery movements -- Netherlands -- History -- 19th century Plays, playscripts. Colonialism and imperialism. HISTORY / Caribbean & West Indies / General. LITERARY CRITICISM / European / General. POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism. Antislavery movements Theater and society Plays, playscripts. Ethnic studies. Slavery and abolition of slavery. Netherlands Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9048554829 9789048554829

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