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Interlude: Colonial Visions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 November 2023

Marchella Ward
Affiliation:
The Open University, Milton Keynes
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Here, the book pauses for a brief interlude. Throughout the book I have made the case that ableist practice of reading bodies for meaning is a reflex of coloniality as well as of classicism. But the narrativizing of blindness as a kind of special knowledge and as a kind of ignorance (explored in the previous chapter) is so frequent in colonial writing as to have been adopted (and explicitly subverted) in anti-colonial and decolonial writing. And here we pause to examine some examples of this, including in the plays of Edgar Nkosi White, Ola Rotimi (and Otun Rasheed), Rita Dove, Danai Gurira and Katori Hall. This leads to a discussion of empire’s specific visuality, drawing on the human zoo and the colonial gaze it shared with the European imperialism and the imperial theatre. The chapter concludes with further investigation of the problem of time (which recurs throughout the book), drawing in more detail on some of Deleuze’s formulations of temporality.

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Blindness and Spectatorship in Ancient and Modern Theatres
Towards New Ways of Looking and Looking Back
, pp. 171 - 198
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2023

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  • Interlude: Colonial Visions
  • Marchella Ward, The Open University, Milton Keynes
  • Book: Blindness and Spectatorship in Ancient and Modern Theatres
  • Online publication: 30 November 2023
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009372732.006
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  • Interlude: Colonial Visions
  • Marchella Ward, The Open University, Milton Keynes
  • Book: Blindness and Spectatorship in Ancient and Modern Theatres
  • Online publication: 30 November 2023
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009372732.006
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  • Interlude: Colonial Visions
  • Marchella Ward, The Open University, Milton Keynes
  • Book: Blindness and Spectatorship in Ancient and Modern Theatres
  • Online publication: 30 November 2023
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009372732.006
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