Black British Drama
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-138-91786-6 (ISBN)
Michael Pearce offers an exciting new approach to reading modern and contemporary black British drama, examining plays by a range of writers including Michael Abbensetts, Mustapha Matura, Caryl Phillips, Winsome Pinnock, Kwame Kwei-Armah, debbie tucker green, Roy Williams and Bola Agbaje. Chapters combine historical documentation and discussion with close analysis to provide an in-depth, absorbing account of post-war black British drama situated within global and transnational circuits.
A significant contribution to black British and black diaspora theatre studies, Black British Drama is a must-read for scholars and students in this evolving field.
Michael Pearce is a Lecturer in Socially Engaged Theatre at the University of Exeter, UK.
Preface
Acknowledgements
Note on the Text
Introduction
Section 1: The USA
Chapter 1: African Americanisation, Black Power and black British drama since the 1970s.
Chapter 2: Black Power legacies in Kwame Kwei-Armah’s Elmina’s Kitchen, Fix Up and Statement of Regret.
Chapter 3: African American myths, music, icons in Mojisola Adebayo’s Moj of the Antarctic and Muhammad Ali and Me.
Section 2: The Caribbean
Chapter 4: Creolisation and the creole continuum in Caribbean British drama.
Chapter 5: Coming to voice – Roy Williams’ The No Boys Cricket Club, Lift Off, Fallout and Sing Yer Heart out for the Lads.
Chapter 6: African accents – Bola Agbaje’s Gone Too Far!, Detaining Justice and Off the Endz.
Section 3: Africa
Chapter 7: Home to host-land and the hyphen in-between – African British diasporic dramas since the 1990s.
Chapter 8: Multiple personality diasporic disorder – Inua Ellams’ The 14th Tale and Untitled.
Chapter 9: Empathy in diaspora – debbie tucker green’s stoning mary, generations and truth and reconciliation.
Conclusion
| Erscheinungsdatum | 05.07.2017 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 138 x 216 mm |
| Gewicht | 300 g |
| Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-138-91786-9 / 1138917869 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-138-91786-6 / 9781138917866 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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