Black British Drama

A Transnational Story

Michael Pearce

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2017
• ISBN:
  9781317422174
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Media & Performing Arts
• Subtopic: Theatre History & Criticism

Black British Drama: A Transnational Story looks afresh at the ways black theatre in Britain is connected to and informed by the spaces of Africa, the Caribbean and the USA.

Michael Pearce offers an exciting new approach to reading modern and contemporary black British drama, examining plays by a range of writers including Michael Abbensetts, Mustapha Matura, Caryl Phillips, Winsome Pinnock, Kwame Kwei-Armah, debbie tucker green, Roy Williams and Bola Agbaje. Chapters combine historical documentation and discussion with close analysis to provide an in-depth, absorbing account of post-war black British drama situated within global and transnational circuits.

A significant contribution to black British and black diaspora theatre studies, Black British Drama is a must-read for scholars and students in this evolving field.

Index

Abbensetts, Michael 96–9, 102, 145, 207; Sweet Talk 97–9, 102, 145

acculturation 6, 93, 122, 127, 135, 165, 167, 207–8

Achebe, Chinua 155, 174n9, 174n12, 183, 185, 210; Things Fall Apart 174n9, 174n12, 183, 185

Addai, David Levi 45, 150n4, 160, 168–9, 171; House of Agnes 150n4, 168–9, 171; I Have a Dream 45; 92.3 FM 171; Oxford Street 150n4, 160, 169, 171

Adebayo, Mojisola 16, 17, 42, 44, 46, 49n22, 70–86, 86n1, 86n3, 159, 198, 210–11; Desert Boy 46, 85–6; I Stand Corrected 86n1; Matt Henson, North Star 86n1; Moj of the Antarctic 49n22, 71–81, 83, 86n4, 211; Muhammad Ali and Me 44, 71–2, 81–5

Africa 1–2, 8, 11, 12, 15–18, 38–9, 42, 47n4, 54, 56, 60–1, 66–7, 72, 79, 85, 92, 102, 103, 108, 110n9, 139, 146, 155–7, 160, 163–5, 168, 172, 173n8, 187, 190, 192–3, 195, 197, 202–3, 206, 210–12, 213; as ancestral homeland 157; sub-Saharan 157; West 110n9, 182, 207

African America 14, 28, 42, 46–7, 54, 66–7; musical forms of 28

‘African Americana’ 14

‘African Americanisation’ 15, 16, 27, 210–11

African cosmology 64, 202–3

African storytelling: characteristics of 187–8; see also storytelling

Afrocentrism 12, 15, 38–41, 47, 54, 65, 78–9, 94–5, 143, 162, 164, 186, 192, 198, 203, 210–11

‘Afropolitan’ 10, 166, 178, 208

Agbaje, Bola 8, 10, 11, 16, 17, 18n5, 44, 116, 118, 134–50, 150n2, 150n3, 160, 166, 168, 169–71, 208–9; Belong 135, 150, 160; Detaining Justice 11, 135, 141–7, 151n7, 166, 169, 171, ...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• CONTENTS
• Preface
• Acknowledgements
• Notes on the text
• Introduction
• SECTION I The USA
• SECTION II The Caribbean
• SECTION III Africa
• Index