debbie tucker green: Critical Perspectives
- Submitting institution
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Loughborough University
- Unit of assessment
- 27 - English Language and Literature
- Output identifier
- 1826
- Type
- B - Edited book
- DOI
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10.1007/978-3-030-34581-5
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- ISBN
- 978-3-030-34580-8
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- April
- Year of publication
- 2020
- 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
- No
- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- 110,000 words in length, this book took over four years to research, commission, edit, and prepare for publication. It contains fourteen original essays, as well as an interview with a theatre director, all addressing contemporary debates relevant to tucker green’s work, critical race studies, and contemporary theatre from world-leading and emerging scholars. Different theoretical perspectives enable a detailed investigation of a highly significant playwright in considerable depth. The output includes a chapter and introduction co-authored by the editor.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
- This is the first full-length work on the playwright, debbie tucker green. As well as including a lengthy research-informed introduction, interview with a director, and substantial chapter, all co-authored by Siân Adiseshiah, the wider editing of the book is informed by substantial research undertaken by Adiseshiah and Bolton. The research process began with the editors’ engagement with the entire corpus of primary texts authored by debbie tucker green, all critical literature on her work, and scrutiny of wider scholarship within the fields of contemporary theatre studies and black literature. This led to the organisation of a symposium at Lincoln in 2015, which put in play two different methodological approaches: a framing of tucker green’s work from black studies perspectives prioritising race, and black history and culture as the filter through which her work is understood, and approaches informed by wider contemporary theatre studies concepts, such as precarity, human rights, and neoliberalism. It also sought to examine and critique notions of empathy in her work and critical responses to it.
These research strands informed speaker invitations, and in turn the selection of essays for the book, and the commissioning of four additional essays, which include world-leading experts in contemporary theatre, black playwriting, and feminist theatre. The book covers the breadth of tucker green’s work for theatre, as well as paying attention to her radio and television work. Editorial curation offered original contributions on her work and reframed broader debates around contemporary drama and its politics, posing new questions of theatre and its making, and provoking scholarly thinking about drama’s relationship with its political context. All 14 chapters are previously unpublished essays of 7000-9000 words which went through multiple stages of editorial revision in order to maximise the coherence and reach of the collection.
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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