Research Catalog

Details

Additional authors

1. Brewer, Mary F.
2. Goddard, Lynette, 1966-
3. Osborne, Deirdre

Description

1. x, 240 pages; 22 cm

Summary

1. "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"--

Subject

1. English drama > 20th century > Black authors > History and criticism
2. English literature > Black authors > History and criticism
3. English drama > 21st century > Black authors > History and criticism

Contents

1. Framing Black British Drama: Past to Present -- Part I: Post-War Migration -- The Social and Political Context of Black British Theatre: 1950s-80s -- Identity Politics in the Plays of Mustapha Matura -- Staging Social Change: Three Plays by Barry Reckord -- Home/lessness, Exile and Triangular Identities in the Drama of Caryl Phillips -- Part II: Second Generation -- The Social and Political Context of Black British Theatre: 1980s-90s -- Looking Back: Winsome Pinnock's Politics of Representation -- (Black) Masculinity, Race, and Nation in Roy Williams' Sports Plays -- Kwame Kwei-Armah's African-American Inspired Triptych -- Part III: Neo-Millenial -- The Social and Political Context of Black British Theatre: The 2000s -- Resisting the Standard and displaying her colours: Debbie Tucker Green at British Drama's Vanguard -- Bola Agbaje: Voicing a New Africa on the British Stage -- Witnessing to, in, and from the Centre: Oladipo Agboluaje's Theatre of Dialogic Centrism.

Call number

1. Sc D 15-894

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Title

1. Modern and contemporary Black British drama / edited by Mary Brewer, Lynette Goddard, Deirdre Osborne.

Publisher

1. London ; New York, NY : Palgrave, 2015.

Type of content

1. text

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

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1. Cover image

Added author

1. Brewer, Mary F., editor.
2. Goddard, Lynette, 1966- editor.
3. Osborne, Deirdre, editor.

LCCN

1. 2014037827

Other standard identifier

1. 9780230303201

ISBN

1. 9780230303195 hbk.
2. 0230303196
3. 9780230303201 pbk.
4. 023030320X pbk.

Research call number

1. Sc D 15-894