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Contemporary Black and Asian women playwrights in Britain / Gabriele Griffin.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Griffin, Gabriele, author.
- Series:
- Cambridge studies in modern theatre.
- Cambridge studies in modern theatre
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English drama--20th century--History and criticism.
- English drama.
- Feminist drama, English--History and criticism.
- Feminist drama, English.
- English drama--Women authors--History and criticism.
- English drama--Black authors--History and criticism.
- English drama--Asian authors--History and criticism.
- English drama--21st century--History and criticism.
- Women, Black--Great Britain--Intellectual life.
- Women, Black.
- Asians--Great Britain--Intellectual life.
- Asians.
- Feminism and literature--Great Britain.
- Feminism and literature.
- Women and literature--Great Britain.
- Women and literature.
- Women, Black, in literature.
- Asians in literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (x, 291 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Other Title:
- Contemporary Black & Asian Women Playwrights in Britain
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2003.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This text was the first monograph to document and analyse the plays written by Black and Asian women in Britain. The volume explores how Black and Asian women playwrights theatricalize their experiences of migration, displacement, identity, racism and sexism in Britain. Plays by writers such as Tanika Gupta, Winsome Pinnock, Maya Chowdhry and Amrit Wilson, among others - many of whom have had their work produced at key British theatre sites - are discussed in some detail. Other playwrights' work is also briefly explored to suggest the range and scope of contemporary plays. The volume analyses concerns such as geographies of un/belonging, reverse migration (in the form of tourism), sexploitation, arranged marriages, the racialization of sexuality, and asylum seeking as they emerge in the plays, and argues that Black and Asian women playwrights have become constitutive subjects of British theatre.
- Contents:
- Diasporic subjects
- Geographies of un/belonging
- Unsettling identities
- Culture clashes
- Racing sexualities
- Sexploitation?
- Living diaspora now.
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 24 Feb 2016).
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 265-284) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780511094859
- 051109485X
- 9781107134898
- 1107134897
- 9780511061172
- 051106117X
- 9780511297434
- 0511297432
- 9780511206269
- 0511206267
- 9780511486036
- 0511486030
- 9781280162916
- 1280162910
- 9780511069635
- 0511069634
- 9780511120909
- 0511120907
- Publisher Number:
- 2027/heb07607 hdl
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