Black British Drama

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