English Theatre and Social Abjection - A Divided Nation (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020)

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.

General

Imprint:	Palgrave Macmillan
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Contemporary Performance InterActions
Release date:	August 2020
First published:	2020
Authors:	Nadine Holdsworth
Dimensions:	210 x 148 x 22mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	237
Edition:	1st ed. 2020
ISBN-13:	978-1-137-59776-2
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > Performing arts > Individual actors & performers Books > Arts & Architecture > Performing arts > Theatre, drama > General Promotions
LSN:	1-137-59776-3
Barcode:	9781137597762

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