Modern and contemporary Black British drama
Machine generated contents note: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 Thoma...
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Macmillan Education/Palgrave
2015
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| Zusammenfassung: | Machine generated contents note: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. Machine generated contents note: -- 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 "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"-- |
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| Beschreibung: | X, 240 S. 22 cm |
| ISBN: | 9780230303201 978-0-230-30320-1 9780230303195 978-0-230-30319-5 023030320X 0-230-30320-X |