English Theatre and Social Abjection : A Divided Nation Hardback
by Nadine Holdsworth
Part of the Contemporary Performance InterActions series
Hardback
Description
Focusing on contemporary English theatre, this book asks a series of questions: How has theatre contributed to understandings of the North-South divide?
What have theatrical treatments of riots offered to wider debates about their causes and consequences?
Has theatre been able to intervene in the social unease around Gypsy and Traveller communities?
How has theatre challenged white privilege and the persistent denigration of black citizens?
In approaching these questions, this book argues that the nation is blighted by a number of internal rifts that pit people against each other in ways that cast particular groups as threats to the nation, as unruly or demeaned citizens – as ‘social abjects’.
It interrogates how those divisions are generated and circulated in public discourse and how theatre offers up counter-hegemonic and resistant practices that question and challenge negative stigmatization, but also how theatre can contribute to the recirculation of problematic cultural imaginaries.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:237 pages, 5 Illustrations, color; 1 Illustrations, black and white; XI, 237 p. 6 illus., 5 illus. i
- Publisher:Palgrave Macmillan
- Publication Date:19/08/2020
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- ISBN:9781137597762
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Only a few left - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:237 pages, 5 Illustrations, color; 1 Illustrations, black and white; XI, 237 p. 6 illus., 5 illus. i
- Publisher:Palgrave Macmillan
- Publication Date:19/08/2020
- Category:
- ISBN:9781137597762
