Contemporary black British playwrights [electronic resource] : margins to mainstream /
Goddard, L.author.
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.
Description based upon print version of record.
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? Contemporary Black British Playwrights at the Tricycle Theatre -- Part III: Conclusions -- Social Issues and Social Debates: Snapshots, Headlines, Conclusions.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Kwei-Armah, Kwame.
Williams, Roy.
Green, Debbie Tucker.
Agbaje, Bola.
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English literature
English drama
Dramatists, English