Overview
- Interrogates the way in which Africa has been portrayed on the London stage since the 1950s
- Draws together work from both well-established academics and emerging scholars
- Combines interviews and essays to provide both a theoretical and hands-on approach to the topic
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Africa on the London Stage, 1955–2013
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Companies and Theatre Practitioners
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Reviews
“Dr Tiziana Morosetti’s book is dynamic and evolutionary. It interrogates the egregious practices of Theatre critics who for almost a century have marginalized the presence of African drama on the British stage. They deemed it as irrelevant, unprofessional, sub-standard and unsuitable for British audience appreciation. This bookpainstakingly reveals what can best be described as deliberate attempts at a cultural hegemony, apartheid and the vicissitudes. The experience of African migrants from former British colonies as well as those of their descendants born in Britain have coalesced to define a definitive wave of British drama that is undeniably a fabric of the British experience which consequently, and unavoidably must be defined as British drama. With Morosetti’s book, it becomes impossible for any Theatre scholar writing about African or British drama to ignore this praxis and the evolution that has followed. ” (Professor ‘Niyi Coker, University of Missouri, USA)
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Africa on the Contemporary London Stage
Editors: Tiziana Morosetti
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-94508-8
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-94507-1Published: 17 December 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-40453-6Published: 18 February 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-94508-8Published: 06 December 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 246
Topics: Contemporary Theatre, Theatre History, National/Regional Theatre and Performance, African Culture