| Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 518 pages) |
| Contents |
Introduction -- Part I. Race and racism in contemporary theatre. The American theatrical canon and the struggle for racial equality in British theatre -- Racialization and contemporary German theatre -- 'Dangerous dialogues' : questioning constructions of race in South Pacific theatre -- Staging the ambiguities of race : polymorphous indigenous dramaturgies in Canada -- Representing the Roma experience on the contemporary Romanian stage : the intersectional lenses of Giuvlipen's anti-racist and feminist theatre works -- Part II. War, conflict and the nation. Race as category in Nazi German theatre -- Maori theatre in not-quite-post-colonial Aotearoa New Zealand -- Racial nationalism and the Serbian theatre : from Radovan III to DAH -- The Palestinians in the Israeli theatre -- Faces of a long unspoken collective trauma : theatrical representations of friendship, love, betrayal, and pain in the landscape of war in contemporary Turkey -- Staging race in White South African Afrikaans theatre -- Part III. Blackness and the African diaspora. In the prison of their skins : performing race in Caribbean theatre -- Black women in post-revolutionary Cuban theatre -- Black performances and Black artists performing in contemporary Brazil -- Lackface : blackface masking in contemporary US theatre -- Fighting racism on the contemporary francophone Stage -- 'Though we are written into the landscape you don't see us' (Testament, 2018). Black faces in white spaces : whiteness as terror and the terror of un-belonging in Black men walking -- Part IV. Constructions of whiteness and the 'Other'. 'A wretched caricature... unworthy of America : Charles Mathews's representation of the Yankee -- The language of Blackness : representations of Africans and African-Americans on the British stage after Uncle Tom's cabin -- Susan Glaspell's Trifles and inheritors : white settler hunger, debt and the Blackhawk Purchase Lands -- Beyond the Peyote dance : the Raramuri tribe and 'Mexico' representations in Antonin Artaud's work -- Representing and re-presenting others in Yorùbá performance -- Pigs and dogs and The bogus woman : racialized performance in Anglo-British women playwrights -- Race, occidentalism/orientalism and sino-centrism in contemporary Chinese theatre |
| Summary |
The first comprehensive publication on the subject, this book investigates interactions between racial thinking and the stage in the modern and contemporary world, with 25 essays on case studies that will shed light on areas previously neglected by criticism while providing fresh perspectives on already-investigated contexts. Examining performances from Europe, the Americas, the Middle East, Africa, China, Australia, New Zealand, and the South Pacific islands, this collection ultimately frames the history of racial narratives on stage in a global context, resetting understandings of race in public discourse |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from resource home page (ProQuest Ebook Central, viewed October 21, 2021) |
| Subject |
Theater and society.
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Race in the theater.
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Race relations in literature.
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Race -- Drama
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Race relations -- Drama
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Race relations in literature
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Race in the theater
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Race
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Race relations
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Theater and society
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| Genre/Form |
Drama
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Drama.
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Théâtre.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Morosetti, Tiziana, editor.
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Okagbue, Osy A., editor.
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| ISBN |
9783030439576 |
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3030439577 |
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