Staging black feminisms : identity, politics, performance / Lynette Goddard.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Goddard, Lynette, 1966-

Series:

Performance interventions

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Black theater--Great Britain--History--20th century.

Black theater.

Feminist theater--Great Britain--History--20th century.

Feminist theater.

Lesbian theater--Great Britain--History--20th century.

Lesbian theater.

Women in the theater--Great Britain--History--20th century.

Women in the theater.

English drama--20th century--History and criticism.

English drama.

English drama--Women authors--History and criticism.

English drama--Women authors.

English drama--Black authors--History and criticism.

English drama--Black authors.

History.

Great Britain.

Physical Description:

ix, 229 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Basingstoke ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.

Summary:

Staging Black Feminisms sets out to challenge perceptions of black women's theatre work as inherently feminist. Drawing on black feminist theories of identity and theories of black and feminist performance form, it analyses key themes such as migration, motherhood, sexuality, mixed race identity and interracial relationships in a range of late-twentieth-and early twenty-first-century black British women's plays and performances. Case studies explore plays by Winsome Pinnock, Jackie Kay, Valerie Mason John, Jacqueline Rudet and debbie tucker green, alongside devised performance, dance, poetry and live art by Black Mime Theatre Women's Troop, Patience Agbabi, SuAndi, Dorothea Smartt and Susan Lewis.

Contents:

Part I History and Aesthetics

1 Black British Women and Theatre: An Overview 17

2 Black Feminist Performance Aesthetics 39

Part II Plays

3 Winsome Pinnock's Migration Narratives 57

4 Jacqueline Rudet (Re)Writihg Sexual Deviancy 82

5 Jackie Kay and Valerie Mason-John's Zamis, Lesbians and Queers 105

Part III Performances

6 Black Mime Theatre Women's Troop 133

7 Solo Voices: Performance Art, Dance and Poetry 154

8 Black Feminist Futures? 181.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 198-220) and index.

ISBN:

9781403986405

1403986401

OCLC:

73744144

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