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"This indispensable overview of modern black British drama spans seven decades of distinctive playwriting from the 1950s to the present. Interweaving social and cultural context with close critical analysis of key dramatists' plays, leading scholars explore how these dramatists have created an enduring, transformative and diverse cultural presence"--
Publish Date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan,
Springer,
Red Globe Press
Language
English
Pages
240
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Subjects
English literature, Black authors, History and criticism, English drama, LITERARY CRITICISM / Drama, PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / History & Criticism, English drama, history and criticism, 20th century, English drama, history and criticism, 21st century, Race in literatureTimes
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Modern and contemporary Black British drama
2015, Palgrave Macmillan, Springer, Red Globe Press
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Table of Contents
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Acknowledgements
Notes on Contributors
Introduction: Framing Black British Drama: Past to Present; Mary Brewer, Lynette Goddard, Deirdre Osborne
PART I: POST-WAR MIGRATION
1. The Social and Political Context of Black British Theatre: 1950s-80s; Helen Thomas
2. Identity Politics in the Plays of Mustapha Matura; Brian Crow
3. Staging Social Change: Three Plays by Barry Reckord; Mary F. Brewer
4. Home/lessness, Exile and Triangular Identities in the Drama of Caryl Phillips; Suzanne Scafe
PART II: SECOND GENERATION
5. The Social and Political Context of Black British Theatre: 1980s-90s; Meenakshi Ponnuswami
6. Looking Back: Winsome Pinnock's Politics of Representation; Nicola Abram
7. (Black) Masculinity, Race, and Nation in Roy Williams' Sports Plays; Lynette Goddard
8. Kwame Kwei-Armah's African-American Inspired Triptych; Michael Pearce
PART III: NEO-MILLENNIAL
9. The Social and Political Context of Black British Theatre: The 2000s; D. Keith Peacock
10. Resisting the Standard and displaying her colours: debbie tucker green at British Drama's Vanguard; Deirdre Osborne
11. Bola Agbaje: Voicing a New Africa on the British Stage; Ekua Ekumah
12. Witnessing to, in, and from the Centre: Oladipo Agboluaje's Theatre of Dialogic Centrism; Victor Ukaegbu
Bibliography
Index.
Edition Notes
Includes bibliographical references (pages 210-228) and index.
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