The Palgrave Handbook of Theatre and Race

by Tiziana Morosetti (Editor), Osita Okagbue (Editor)

Overview

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 Pacifi c islands, this collection ultimately frames the history of racial narratives on stage in a global context, resetting understandings of race in public discourse.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783030439576
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan
Publication date:	04/20/2021
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

Tiziana Morosetti is an Associate Lecturer with the Department of Theatre and Performance at Goldsmiths, University of London, UK. She also teaches African Literature at the African Studies Centre, Oxford, UK. She is the editor of Staging the Other in Nineteenth-Century British Drama (2016) and Africa on the Contemporary London Stage (2018). She is the deputy director of the journal Quaderni del ’900, and the General Secretary of the African Theatre Association (AfTA). 

Osita Okagbue is a Professor of Theatre and Performance at Goldsmiths, University of London, UK. His published works include African Theatres and Performances (2007), Culture and Identity in African and Caribbean Theatre (2009), African Theatre: Diasporas (2009), co-edited with Christine Matzke, and Performative Inter-Actions in African Theatre 1, 2&3 (2013), with Dr Kene Igweonu. More recently, he has co-authored, with Professor Samuel Kasule, East African Theatres and Performances (2020).

Table of Contents

1. Introduction.- Part I. Race and Racism in Contemporary Theatre.- 2. The American Theatrical Canon and the Struggle for Racial Equality in British Theatre.- 3. Racialization and Contemporary German Theatre.- 4. Dangerous Dialogues': Questioning Constructions of Race in South Pacific Theatre.- 5 Staging the Ambiguities of Race: Polymorphous Indigenous Dramaturgies in Canada.- 6. 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.- 7. Race as Category in Nazi German Theatre.- 8. Māori Theatre in Not-Quite-Post-Colonial Aotearoa New Zealand.- 9. Racial Nationalism and the Serbian Theatre: From Radovan III to DAH.- 10. The Palestinians in the Israeli Theatre.- 11. Faces of a Long Unspoken Collective Trauma: Theatrical Representations of Friendship, Love, Betrayal, andPain in the Landscape of War in Contemporary Turkey.- 12. Staging Race in White South African Afrikaans Theatre.- Part III. Blackness and the African Diaspora.- 13. In the Prison of Their Skins: Performing Race in Caribbean Theatre.- 14. Black Women in Post-revolutionary Cuban Theatreer.- 15. Black Performances and Black Artists Performing in Contemporary Brazil.- 16. Lackface: Blackface Masking in Contemporary US Theatre.- 17. Fighting Racism on the Contemporary Francophone Stage.- 18. ‘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’.- 19. ‘A Wretched Caricature…Unworthy of America’: Charles Mathews’s Representation of the Yankee.- 20. The Language of Blackness: Representations of Africans and African-Americans on the British Stage After Uncle Tom’s Cabin.- 21. Susan Glaspell’s Trifles and Inheritors: White Settler Hunger, Debt and the Blackhawk Purchase Lands.- 22. Beyond the Peyote Dance: The Raramuri Tribe and ‘Mexico’ Representations in Antonin Artaud’s Work.- 23. Representing and Re-presenting Others in Yorùbá Performance.- 24. Pigs and Dogs and The Bogus Woman: Racialized Performance in Anglo-British Women Playwrights.- 25. Race, Occidentalism/Orientalism and Sino-centrism in Contemporary Chinese Theatre.