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基本説明
Examines the work of established playwrights as well as the generation of young writers who emerged in the mid 1990s and explores a wide variety of key issues including cultural politics and constructions of race and gender.
Full Description
Cool Britannia? draws on new research to create a critical framework for approaching the drama of this period. It examines the work of established playwrights as well as the generation of young writers who emerged in the mid-1990s and explores a wide variety of key issues including cultural politics and constructions of race and gender.
Contents
Acknowledgements.- Contributors.- Introduction; G.Saunders.- PART 1IN-YER-FACE THEATRE: A RECONSTRUCTION.- 'We All Need Stories': The Politics of In-Yer-Face Theatre; A.Sierz.- Cruel Britannia; K.Urban.- Harold Pinter and Poetic Politics; M.Luckhurst.- PART 2: THATCHERISM AND (POST-) FEMINISM.- Thatcher's Children: Alienation and Anomie in the Plays of Judy Upton; R.D'Monte.- Middle Class Aspirations and Black Women's Mental (Ill) Health in Zindika's Leonora's Dance, and Bonnie.- Greer's Munda Negra and Dancing on Blackwater; L.Goddard.- A Good Night Out, For the Girls; E.Aston.- PART 3: NATION, DEVOLUTION AND GLOBALIZATION.- 'Mapping the Territory': Modern Scottish Drama; D.Pattie.- 'The Net and the Self': Colliding Views of Individuality and Nationhood in the Pre-Devolutionary Plays of .- Mark Jenkins and Ed Thomas; R.Owen.- A Legacy of Violence': Representing Loyalism in the Plays of Gary Mitchell; N.Holdsworth & W.McDowell.- 'Because it Feels Fucking Amazing': Recent British Drama and Bodily Mutilation; D.Rebellato.- 'Rough Theatre'; D.Greig.- Bibliography.- Index.