Modern and Contemporary Black British Drama
- Submitting institution
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Loughborough University
- Unit of assessment
- 27 - English Language and Literature
- Output identifier
- 2410
- Type
- B - Edited book
- DOI
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- Publisher
- Palgrave
- ISBN
- 978-0230303201
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- December
- Year of publication
- 2014
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- No
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
- This output results from an extended and collective investigation of the evolution of black theatre on the British stage. The overarching research methodology entailed a transdisciplinary approach – the essays integrate literary, theatre and performance research methods. The research findings evidence how black migration/settlement has been staged, the intersection of British and African-Caribbean theatrical traditions, and the distinctive aesthetics of black drama at the millennium, as well as the aesthetic parameters for a black dramatic canon. Together the essays constitute a major intervention into the debate about the arts, race and British identity.
The 12 chapters are original commissioned works of 6000-7000 words. Each chapter underwent several stages of revision with substantial editorial input based on an in-depth knowledge of the field. The book integrates the research of leading scholars in modern and black British drama and feminist theatre, spanning the historical and social contexts of British theatre in the twentieth- and twenty-first centuries.
The collection is the product of 2 years, research, writing and editorial work. Brewer’s editorial contribution forms part of a research trajectory that began with the publication of her monograph: Race, Sex and Gender in Contemporary Women’s Theatre, and included writing the initial book proposal, intensive editing of draft chapters, extensive correspondence with authors, and compiling the bibliography and subject index. In addition, Brewer wrote, with Goddard and Osborne, the critical introduction that locates the essays within their dramatic, historical and theoretical contexts, as well as a chapter on Jamaican playwright Barry Reckord. The chapter is based on archival research and demonstrates Reckord’s importance in the development of a staged critique of race and class in modern Britain.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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