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| Author | : Deirdre Osborne |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 444 |
| Release | : 2017-09-28 |
| Genre | : Drama |
| ISBN | : 1786823284 |
Download Hidden Gems: Contemporary Black British Plays Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
B is for Black by Courttia Newland Moj of the Antarcticby Mojisola Adebayo The Sons of Charlie Paora by Lennie James Brown Girl in the Ringby Valerie Mason-John Something Dark by Lemn Sissay 35 Centsby Paul Anthony Morris This distinctive new volume of drama by black British playwrights exemplifies how experiments with form, subject-matter and genre can serve to centralise the experiences of black people in local, national and international contexts of culture, politics and performance. Each play is critically introduced, to create an anthology of interactions - between the people who have long championed the work through teaching and writing about it and the people who produce, perform and explain their intentions behind it. Something Dark by Lemn Sissay is now a set text on Edexcel’s syllabus for A level English Literature and English Language and Literature.
| Author | : Deirdre Osborne |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 441 |
| Release | : 2012-11-02 |
| Genre | : Drama |
| ISBN | : 1849436983 |
Download Hidden Gems Volume II: Contemporary Black British Plays Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Includes the plays A Bitter Herb, Absolution, Identity, The Far Side, Mary Seacole, and Urban Afro-Saxons This second and sister volume to Hidden Gems showcases a further range of plays by Black British writers whose work reaches beyond themes too-often perceived by mainstream theatre commissioning as defining Black people's experiences. The plays, monodrama and libretto represent subject-matter from woman-centred history, revolutionary politics, trans-racial adoption and African-diasporic familial heritage, as contoured by the writers' boundary crossing profiles as poets, playwrights, performers and directors. The accompanying critical introductions are provided by people committed to recognising the aesthetic and political significance of the work, and its necessary inclusion in British theatre and literary history.
| Author | : L. Goddard |
| Publisher | : Springer |
| Total Pages | : 255 |
| Release | : 2015-02-17 |
| Genre | : Performing Arts |
| ISBN | : 1137493100 |
Download Contemporary Black British Playwrights Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book examines the socio-political and theatrical conditions that heralded the shift from the margins to the mainstream for black British Writers, through analysis of the social issues portrayed in plays by Kwame Kwei-Armah, debbie tucker green, Roy Williams, and Bola Agbaje.
| Author | : Mary Brewer |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 252 |
| Release | : 2017-09-16 |
| Genre | : Performing Arts |
| ISBN | : 1137506296 |
Download Modern and Contemporary Black British Drama Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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.
| Author | : Susheila Nasta |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 862 |
| Release | : 2020-01-16 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1108169007 |
Download The Cambridge History of Black and Asian British Writing Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The Cambridge History of Black and Asian British Writing provides a comprehensive historical overview of the diverse literary traditions impacting on this field's evolution, from the eighteenth century to the present. Drawing on the expertise of over forty international experts, this book gathers innovative scholarship to look forward to new readings and perspectives, while also focusing on undervalued writers, texts, and research areas. Creating new pathways to engage with the naming of a field that has often been contested, readings of literary texts are interwoven throughout with key political, social, and material contexts. In making visible the diverse influences constituting past and contemporary British literary culture, this Cambridge History makes a unique contribution to British, Commonwealth, postcolonial, transnational, diasporic, and global literary studies, serving both as one of the first major reference works to cover four centuries of black and Asian British literary history and as a compass for future scholarship.
| Author | : Siân Adiseshiah |
| Publisher | : Springer Nature |
| Total Pages | : 354 |
| Release | : 2020-04-15 |
| Genre | : Performing Arts |
| ISBN | : 3030345815 |
Download debbie tucker green Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This long-awaited book is the first full-length study of the work of the extraordinary contemporary black British playwright, debbie tucker green. Covering the period from 2000 (Two Women) to 2017 (a profoundly affectionate, passionate devotion to someone (-noun)), it offers scholars and students the opportunity to engage in cutting-edge critical debate engendered by tucker green’s innovative dramatic works for stage, television, and radio. This groundbreaking book includes contributions by a range of outstanding scholars, including black playwriting specialists, world-leading contemporary theatre scholars and some of the very best emerging researchers in the field. While always focused on the precision and detail of tucker green’s work, this book simultaneously reframes broader debates around contemporary drama and its politics, poses new questions of theatre, and provokes scholarly thinking in ways that, however obliquely, contribute to the change for which the plays agitate.
| Author | : Jen Harvie |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 325 |
| Release | : 2024-02-29 |
| Genre | : Drama |
| ISBN | : 1108421806 |
Download The Cambridge Companion to British Theatre since 1945 Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The definitive guide to post-war British theatre's huge variety and expansion, exploring the diverse contexts that shaped it.
| Author | : Lynne Pearce |
| Publisher | : Manchester University Press |
| Total Pages | : 392 |
| Release | : 2015-11-01 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1526101874 |
Download Postcolonial Manchester Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Postcolonial Manchester offers a radical new perspective on Britain’s devolved literary cultures by focusing on Manchester’s vibrant, multicultural literary scene. Referencing Avtar Brah’s concept of ‘diaspora space’, the authors argue that Manchester is, and always has been, a quintessentially migrant city to which workers of all nationalities and cultures have been drawn since its origins in the cotton trade and the expansion of the British Empire. This colonial legacy – and the inequalities upon which it turns – is a recurrent motif in the texts and poetry performances of the contemporary Mancunian writers featured here, many of them members of the city’s long-established African, African-Caribbean, Asian, Chinese, Irish and Jewish diasporic communities. By turning the spotlight on Manchester’s rich, yet under-represented, literary tradition in this way, Postcolonial Manchester also argues for the devolution of the canon of English Literature and, in particular, recognition for contemporary black and Asian literary culture outside of London.
| Author | : Katy Shaw |
| Publisher | : Springer |
| Total Pages | : 195 |
| Release | : 2016-11-25 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 113755391X |
Download Teaching 21st Century Genres Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book is the first ever collection about twenty-first century genre fiction. It offers accessible yet rigorous critical interventions in a growing field of popular culture and academic study, presenting new genres as a fascinating and powerful means of reading contemporary culture. The collection explores the history and uses of genre to date, analyses key examples of innovations and developments in the field and reflects on how these texts have been mobilised in teaching since the year 2000. It explores a range of new twenty-first century genres through a close reading of key examples, along with a broader critical overview at the beginning of each chapter capturing wider developments, contexts and themes. As a result of this contextual, text-orientated approach, the book promotes a broad appeal beyond the specifics of new genres and authors, and will contribute to a wider understanding of developments in post-millennial fictions.
| Author | : Nicola Abram |
| Publisher | : Springer Nature |
| Total Pages | : 264 |
| Release | : 2020-10-12 |
| Genre | : Performing Arts |
| ISBN | : 3030514595 |
Download Black British Women's Theatre Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book marks a significant methodological shift in studies of black British women’s theatre: it looks beyond published plays to the wealth of material held in archives of various kinds, from national repositories and themed collections to individuals’ personal papers. It finds there a cache of unpublished manuscripts and production recordings distinctive for their non-naturalistic aesthetics. Close analysis of selected works identifies this as an intersectional feminist creative practice. Chapters focus on five theatre companies and artists, spanning several decades: Theatre of Black Women (1982-1988), co-founded by Booker Prize-winning writer Bernardine Evaristo; Munirah Theatre Company (1983-1991); Black Mime Theatre Women’s Troop (1990-1992); Zindika; and SuAndi. The book concludes by reflecting on the politics of representation, with reference to popular postmillennial playwright debbie tucker green. Drawing on new interviews with the playwrights/practitioners and their peers, this book assembles a rich, interconnected, and occasionally corrective history of black British women’s creativity. By reproducing 22 facsimile images of flyers, production programmes, photographs and other ephemera, Black British Women’s Theatre: Intersectionality, Archives, Aesthetics not only articulates a hidden history but allows its readers their own encounter with the fragile record of this vibrant past.
