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Modern and Contemporary Black British Drama


Modern and Contemporary Black British Drama

Paperback by Brewer, Mary; Goddard, Lynette (Royal Holloway, University of London, UK); Osborne, Deirdre (Author, Goldsmiths, University of London, London)

Modern and Contemporary Black British Drama

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ISBN:
9780230303201
Publication Date:
29 Dec 2014
Language:
English
Publisher:
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:
Red Globe Press
Pages:
252 pages
Format:
Paperback
For delivery:
Estimated despatch 30 Apr - 5 May 2024
Modern and Contemporary Black British Drama

Description

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.

Contents

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.

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