Contemporary Black British Playwrights
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-1-349-31487-4 (ISBN)
Lynette Goddard is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Drama and Theatre, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK. As well as several journal articles and book chapters on contemporary black British playwriting, her publications include writing Staging Black Feminisms: Identity, Politics, Performance (Palgrave, 2007), co-editing Modern and Contemporary Black British Drama (Palgrave, 2014), and selecting and introducing The Methuen Drama Book of Plays By Black British Writers (Methuen, 2011).
PART I: CONTEXTS 1. Beyond Identity Politics: Black British Playwrights on the Mainstream PART II: PLAYWRIGHTS, PLAYS, THEMES 2. Street Life: Black Masculinity and Youth Violence in Roy Williams' 'Urban' Plays 3. Past and Present: Legacies of Slavery in Kwame Kwei-Armah's National Theatre Triptych 4. Breaking the Silence: Women's Solidarity in debbie tucker green's Abuse and Trauma Plays 5. Playing the Game: Race Relations, Racism, and Nation in Roy Williams' Sports Plays 6. Around the World: African and Caribbean Human Rights in debbie tucker green's Global Plays 7. A Slice-of-Life: British-African Social Comedy in Bola Agbaje's Council Estate Plays 8. State-of-the-Nation? Black British Playwrights at the Tricycle Theatre PART III: CONCLUSIONS 9. Social Issues and Social Debates: Snapshots, Headlines, Conclusions
| Erscheinungsdatum | 26.05.2016 |
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| Zusatzinfo | XII, 255 p. |
| Verlagsort | Basingstoke |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 140 x 216 mm |
| Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett |
| Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport ► Tanzen / Tanzsport | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte | |
| Schlagworte | Comedy • Identity • Theatre |
| ISBN-10 | 1-349-31487-0 / 1349314870 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-349-31487-4 / 9781349314874 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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