Modern and Contemporary Black British Drama

Mary F. Brewer is Senior Lecturer in English and Drama at the University of Loughborough, UK. She is the author of Race, Sex and Gender in Contemporary Women's Theatre and Staging Whiteness, and editor of Exclusions in Feminist Thought: Challenging the Boundaries of Womanhood and Harold Pinter's The Dumb Waiter.Lynette Goddard is Senior Lecturer in Drama and Theatre at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK. She is the author of Staging Black Feminisms: Identity, Politics, Performance and has worked with several theatre companies, including Black Mime Theatre, Black Theatre Co-operative (now NITRO) and the Tricycle Theatre.Deidre Osborne is Senior Lecturer in Drama and Theatre Arts at Goldsmiths, University of London, UK. She is the editor of Hidden Gems: An Anthology of Black British Plays and Associate Editor of the literary journal Women's Writing 1558-1915.

• AcknowledgementsNotes on ContributorsIntroduction: Framing Black British Drama: Past to Present; Mary Brewer, Lynette Goddard, Deirdre OsbornePART I: POST-WAR MIGRATION1. The Social and Political Context of Black British Theatre: 1950s-80s; Helen Thomas2. Identity Politics in the Plays of Mustapha Matura; Brian Crow3. Staging Social Change: Three Plays by Barry Reckord; Mary F. Brewer4. Home/lessness, Exile and Triangular Identities in the Drama of Caryl Phillips; Suzanne ScafePART II: SECOND GENERATION5. The Social and Political Context of Black British Theatre: 1980s-90s; Meenakshi Ponnuswami6. Looking Back: Winsome Pinnock's Politics of Representation; Nicola Abram7. (Black) Masculinity, Race, and Nation in Roy Williams' Sports Plays; Lynette Goddard8. Kwame Kwei-Armah's African-American Inspired Triptych; Michael PearcePART III: NEO-MILLENNIAL9. The Social and Political Context of Black British Theatre: The 2000s; D. Keith Peacock10. Resisting the Standard and displaying her colours: debbie tucker green at British Drama's Vanguard; Deirdre Osborne11. Bola Agbaje: Voicing a New Africa on the British Stage; Ekua Ekumah12. Witnessing to, in, and from the Centre: Oladipo Agboluaje's Theatre of Dialogic Centrism; Victor UkaegbuBibliographyIndex.