The Palgrave Handbook of Theatre and Race
- Submitting institution
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Goldsmiths' College
- Unit of assessment
- 33 - Music, Drama, Dance, Performing Arts, Film and Screen Studies
- Output identifier
- 3544
- Type
- B - Edited book
- DOI
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- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- ISBN
- 9783030439569
- Open access status
- -
- Month of publication
- April
- Year of publication
- 2021
- URL
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http://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/27505/
- Supplementary information
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- Request cross-referral to
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- Yes
- COVID-19 affected output statement
- The co-editors submitted the manuscript in January 2020, with the hope of a reader-approved final version by June. However, this timeline was severely affected by the COVID-19 pandemic and consequent lockdowns: many contributors struggled to complete the required revisions at the agreed times, with one or two not being able to revise their chapters at all and having to drop out altogether. The reader feedback was also affected, with a knock-on effect on revisions, thus pushing the publication date to February 2021.
- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
- No
- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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T - Theatre and Performance
- Proposed double-weighted
- No
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
- I was originally approached by Palgrave to edit the first extensive study of how ‘race’ is represented in theatre globally. My co-editor and I were determined to use the study to contribute to the project of questioning the concept of ‘race’ itself. We particularly wanted to challenge its validity and/or usefulness as a marker of difference; we also wanted to foreground the fact that the meaning or understandings of the term ‘race’ have been and remain confused and confusing, often dependent on the historical and locational context of use; finally, we wanted to highlight the fact that, while not being real, ‘race’ still impacts greatly on people’s lives in different parts of the globe. _x000D_
The scope of this project is far-reaching. The chapters collectively and individually demonstrate how theatre historically has been and remains a means and a space for the performance and interrogation of identities and cultures, and how race has meant different things to different peoples over time and places. _x000D_
The introduction - jointly co-written - presents these ideas, setting out to serve as the guiding and discursive frame for the ensuing chapters. I contributed to this intellectual framework by interrogating race historically and contextually, highlighting its instability, unreality, and thus inadequacy, as a marker of difference and identity.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- No
- English abstract
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