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English theatre and social abjection : a divided nation
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Holdsworth, Nadine (2020) English theatre and social abjection : a divided nation. Contemporary Performance InterActions . Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 9781137597762
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-59777-9
Abstract
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.
Item Type: | Book | ||||
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Divisions: | Faculty of Arts > Theatre, Performance and Cultural Policy Studies | ||||
Series Name: | Contemporary Performance InterActions | ||||
Publisher: | Palgrave Macmillan | ||||
ISBN: | 9781137597762 | ||||
Official Date: | 19 August 2020 | ||||
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Number of Pages: | 237 | ||||
DOI: | 10.1057/978-1-137-59777-9 | ||||
Status: | Not Peer Reviewed | ||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||
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