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Black Women Centre Stage

Author : Paola Prieto López
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1003824927
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book Black Women Centre Stage written by Paola Prieto López and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-12-13 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the political alliances that are built across the diaspora in contemporary plays written by Black women playwrights in the UK. Through the concept of creative diasporic solidarity, it offers an innovative theoretical approach to examine the ways in which the playwrights respond creatively to the violence and marginalisation of Black communities, especially Black women. This study demonstrates that theatre can act as a productive space for the ethical encounter with the Other (understood in terms of alterity, as someone different from the self) by examining the possibilities of these plays to activate the spectators’ responsibility and solidarity towards different types of violence experienced by Black women, offering alternative modes of relationality. The book engages with a range of contemporary works written by Black women playwrights in the UK, including Mojisola Adebayo, Theresa Ikoko, Diana Nneka Atuona, Gloria Williams, Charlene James, or Yusra Warsama, bringing to the fore a gendered and intersectional approach to the analysis of the texts. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars in contemporary theatre, gender studies and diaspora studies.

Women Centre Stage

Author : Poile Sengupta
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000084477
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women Centre Stage written by Poile Sengupta and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2020-11-29 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This selection of six contemporary plays explores a wide range of issues — familial, social, mythological, political — with women centre stage. The plays are distinct from each other in structure, theme and style, but are bound together by a common thread — the position and role of women in family, social and political systems. Issues such as sexual abuse, in-law relationships, the trauma of ageing, the struggle for women’s empowerment, love and passion, desire and revenge, and dynastic politics are discussed through the varying perspectives of a number of characters, bringing an immediacy and urgency to the subjects under consideration. What is significant about the plays is that they highlight the manipulation of the English language resulting with the introduction of an ‘Indian’ syntax. Multilingualism is used to offset the so-called ‘westernisation’ that has been the by-product of the systematic globalisation of ‘third world’ countries. While the plays are meant to be staged, they are also very reader-friendly and will be entertaining as well as educative for the general reader.

Black British Women's Theatre

Author : Nicola Abram
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030514595
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book Black British Women's Theatre written by Nicola Abram and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-10-12 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book marks a significant methodological shift in studies of black British women’s theatre: it looks beyond published plays to the wealth of material held in archives of various kinds, from national repositories and themed collections to individuals’ personal papers. It finds there a cache of unpublished manuscripts and production recordings distinctive for their non-naturalistic aesthetics. Close analysis of selected works identifies this as an intersectional feminist creative practice. Chapters focus on five theatre companies and artists, spanning several decades: Theatre of Black Women (1982-1988), co-founded by Booker Prize-winning writer Bernardine Evaristo; Munirah Theatre Company (1983-1991); Black Mime Theatre Women’s Troop (1990-1992); Zindika; and SuAndi. The book concludes by reflecting on the politics of representation, with reference to popular postmillennial playwright debbie tucker green. Drawing on new interviews with the playwrights/practitioners and their peers, this book assembles a rich, interconnected, and occasionally corrective history of black British women’s creativity. By reproducing 22 facsimile images of flyers, production programmes, photographs and other ephemera, Black British Women’s Theatre: Intersectionality, Archives, Aesthetics not only articulates a hidden history but allows its readers their own encounter with the fragile record of this vibrant past.

Sexuality, Citizenship and Belonging

Author : Francesca Stella
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317618521
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (176 download)

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Download or read book Sexuality, Citizenship and Belonging written by Francesca Stella and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-10-23 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings together a diverse range of critical interventions in sexuality and gender studies, and seeks to encourage new ways of thinking about the connections and tensions between sexual politics, citizenship and belonging. The book is organized around three interlinked thematic areas, focusing on sexual citizenship, nationalism and international borders (Part 1); sexuality and "race" (Part 2); and sexuality and religion (Part 3). In revisiting notions of sexual citizenship and belonging, contributors engage with topical debates about "sexual nationalism," or the construction of western/European nations as exceptional in terms of attitudes to sexual and gender equality vis-à-vis an uncivilized, racialized "Other." The collection explores macro-level perspectives by attending to the geopolitical and socio-legal structures within which competing claims to citizenship and belonging are played out; at the same time, micro-level perspectives are utilized to explore the interplay between sexuality and "race," nation, ethnicity and religious identities. Geographically, the collection has a prevalently European focus, yet contributions explore a range of trans-national spatial dimensions that exceed the boundaries of "Europe" and of European nation-states.

The Palgrave Handbook of the History of Women on Stage

Author : Jan Sewell
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030238288
Total Pages : 850 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book The Palgrave Handbook of the History of Women on Stage written by Jan Sewell and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-04-29 with total page 850 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings together nearly 40 academics and theatre practitioners to chronicle and celebrate the courage, determination and achievements of women on stage across the ages and around the globe. The collection stretches from ancient Greece to present-day Australasia via the United States, Soviet Russia, Europe, India, South Africa and Japan, offering a series of analytical snapshots of women performers, their work and the conditions in which they produced it. Individual chapters provide in-depth consideration of specific moments in time and geography while the volume as a whole and its juxtapositions stimulate consideration of the bigger picture, underlining the challenges women have faced across cultures in establishing themselves as performers and the range of ways in which they gained access to the stage. Organised chronologically, the volume looks not just to the past but the future: it challenges the very notions of ‘history’, ‘stage’ and even the definition of ‘women’ itself.

Black British Feminism

Author : Heidi Safia Mirza
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780415152884
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (528 download)

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Download or read book Black British Feminism written by Heidi Safia Mirza and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of classic texts and new black feminist scholarship that traces the crucial developments and debates of the last twenty years. It is the first volume entirely dedicated to the writings of black women in a British context.

Identity and Diversity

Author : Maud Blair
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
ISBN 13 : 9781853592478
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (924 download)

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Download or read book Identity and Diversity written by Maud Blair and published by Multilingual Matters. This book was released on 1995-01-01 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1995. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Black Women’s Writing

Author : Gina Wisker
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349225045
Total Pages : 199 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (492 download)

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Download or read book Black Women’s Writing written by Gina Wisker and published by Springer. This book was released on 1992-12-18 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains a lively and wide ranging collection of critical essays on Black women's writing from Afro-American, African, South African, British and Caribbean novelists, poets, short story writers and a dramatist. The contributors are black and white, female and male, academics and readers who chart their engagement with and enjoyment of the texts of some of the key figures in black women's writing across several continents.

Why Women Read Fiction

Author : Helen Taylor
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0198827687
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (988 download)

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Download or read book Why Women Read Fiction written by Helen Taylor and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2019 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explains how precious fiction is to contemporary British fiction readers, and how they draw on it to tell the stories of their lives. Draws on over 500 interviews with and questionnaires from women readers and writers.

Women in the Picture: What Culture Does with Female Bodies

Author : Catherine McCormack
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393542092
Total Pages : 159 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (935 download)

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Download or read book Women in the Picture: What Culture Does with Female Bodies written by Catherine McCormack and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2021-11-16 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Art historian Catherine McCormack challenges how culture teaches us to see and value women, their bodies, and their lives. Venus, maiden, wife, mother, monster—women have been bound so long by these restrictive roles, codified by patriarchal culture, that we scarcely see them. Catherine McCormack illuminates the assumptions behind these stereotypes whether writ large or subtly hidden. She ranges through Western art—think Titian, Botticelli, and Millais—and the image-saturated world of fashion photographs, advertisements, and social media, and boldly counters these depictions by turning to the work of women artists like Morisot, Ringgold, Lacy, and Walker, who offer alternative images for exploring women’s identity, sexuality, race, and power in more complex ways.

Screened Stages

Author : Rachel Joseph
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1003855105
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book Screened Stages written by Rachel Joseph and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-02-28 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is devoted to tracing the variety of ways that theatre, theatricality, and performance are embedded in Hollywood cinema as screened stages. A screened stage is the literal or metaphorical appearance of a stage on screen. When the Hollywood style emerged in cinema history it traumatically severed the entwined relationship between film and theatre. The book makes the argument that cinema longs for theatre after that separation. The histories of stage and screen persistently crisscross one another making their separation problematic. The screened stage from the end of the nineteenth century until now offers a miniaturized version of cinema and theatre history. Moments of the stage within the screen compress historical styles and movements into saturated representations on film. Such examples overflow the cinematic screen into singular manifestations of presentness. Screened stages uncover what it means to be simultaneously present and absent. This book would be of great interest to students and scholars of theatre, film, dance, and performance.

Race, Ethnicity and the Women's Movement in England, 1968-1993

Author : Natalie Thomlinson
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137442808
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (374 download)

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Book Synopsis Race, Ethnicity and the Women's Movement in England, 1968-1993 by : Natalie Thomlinson

Download or read book Race, Ethnicity and the Women's Movement in England, 1968-1993 written by Natalie Thomlinson and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-08 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first archive-based account of the charged debates around race in the women's movement in England during the 'second wave' period. Examining both the white and the Black women's movement through a source base that includes original oral histories and extensive research using feminist periodicals, this book seeks to unpack the historical roots of long-running tensions between Black and white feminists. It gives a broad overview of the activism that both Black and white women were involved in, and examines the Black feminist critique of white feminists as racist, how white feminists reacted to this critique, and asks why the women's movement was so unable to engage with the concerns of Black women. Through doing so, the book speaks to many present day concerns within the women's movement about the politics of race, and indeed the place of identity politics within the left more broadly.

The Heart of the Race

Author : Beverley Bryan
Publisher : Verso Books
ISBN 13 : 1786635887
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (866 download)

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Download or read book The Heart of the Race written by Beverley Bryan and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2018-08-14 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A powerful document of the day-to-day realities of Black women in Britain The Heart of the Race is a powerful corrective to a version of Britain’s history from which black women have long been excluded. It reclaims and records black women’s place in that history, documenting their day-to-day struggles, their experiences of education, work and health care, and the personal and political struggles they have waged to preserve a sense of identity and community. First published in 1985 and winner of the Martin Luther King Memorial Prize that year, The Heart of the Race is a testimony to the collective experience of black women in Britain, and their relationship to the British state throughout its long history of slavery, empire and colonialism. This new edition includes a foreword by Lola Okolosie and an interview with the authors, chaired by Heidi Safia Mirza, focusing on the impact of their book since publication and its continuing relevance today

Black Women Directors

Author : Christina N. Baker
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 1978813333
Total Pages : 175 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (788 download)

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Download or read book Black Women Directors written by Christina N. Baker and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2022-03-18 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For far too long, the cultural and historical narratives about film have overlooked the contributions of Black women directors. This book remedies this omission by highlighting the trajectory of the culturally significant work of Black women directors in the U.S., from the under-examined pioneers of the silent era to the contemporary Black women directors in Hollywood.

African Luxury Branding

Author : Mehita Iqani
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000814181
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book African Luxury Branding written by Mehita Iqani and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-12-23 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing together critical race, queer and decolonial analytical approaches, visual analysis, and multimodal discourse analysis, this book explores the discursive strategies deployed by African luxury brands in an age of cross-platform, intertextual branding. Building on literature examining the aesthetics and politics of African luxury, this book demonstrates how leading African luxury brands create visual material speaking to complex sensibilities of culture, nature, and future. Iqani shows how powerful brand narratives and strategies reveal ethical and ideological messages that function to re-position Africa in an increasingly congested global marketplace of ideas. In acknowledging that there is a strong political validity to recognizing the importance of African brands staking their claim in luxury, this book also problematizes the role these brands play in the promotion of luxury discourses, advancing the project of capitalism and their contribution to broader patterns of inequality. Shedding new light not only on luxury branding strategies but also on the idea of a luxurious global “Africanicity” and on the complex cultural politics of South Africa, African Luxury Branding will be of interest to advanced students and researchers in disciplines, including Critical Advertising Studies, African Studies, Media and Communications.

Black Women and Breast Cancer

Author : Elizabeth A. Williams
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1498561071
Total Pages : 183 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (985 download)

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Download or read book Black Women and Breast Cancer written by Elizabeth A. Williams and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2018-11-16 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christian theology at its core is a story about someone being in trouble. In response to this trouble, the triune God intervenes. God identifies with those in trouble, walking with them through the experience. Yet, the God of Christian theology goes a step further. God prevails over trouble. God is an overcomer. Black women with breast cancer identify with this God. They also see themselves in this theological narrative. They see themselves in the midst of troubles, troubles like racism, poverty and environmental exposures that create the disease affecting their bodies. They see the troubles of breast cancer, their biological disposition towards more aggressive cancers, later stage diagnoses, poorer prognoses, diminished quality of care and worse outcomes. Black women also palpably feel the troubles breast cancer brings like fear, physical disfigurement, social isolation, being stereotyped for treatment decisions, abandonment and even death. Black women feel the myriad troubles breast cancer brings. But, Black women also know God in their troubles. They know an active God who identifies with and prioritizes their needs. They know this God, through scripture and experience, as God who puts them front and center. And because they know God as an overcomer and creative force, they know themselves as overcomers. For with God, their troubles do not last always. Black women with breast cancer construct a cultural theology of breast cancer out of knowing God. Borne out of experiences of the Black Church, womanist theology and their intersectional identities of race, class and gender, this theological investigation, informed by anthropology, examines how Black women construct an ontology of who God is and how God operates and gain a God consciousness that shapes their response to the disease. Using pain, faith and testimony as tools to struggle against breast cancer Black survivors’ theology transforms them from victims of breast cancer to change agents. Out of their lives as survivors comes a theology of complex hope- one cognizant of Black women’s breast cancer disparities, yet oriented towards Black women’s achievement of health in the present and the future– a sufficient hope to sustain Black women through it all.

The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance

Author : Paul Allain
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1040127797
Total Pages : 389 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance written by Paul Allain and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-10-09 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is theatre? What is performance? What connects them and how are they different? How have they been shaped by events, people, companies, practices and ideas in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries? And where are they heading next? The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance offers some answers to these big questions. This third edition has been updated to now include over 160 entries, with all entries brought up to date and new topics added, including Caryl Churchill, Black Lives Matter and Hamilton, among others. This book provides an accessible, informative and engaging introduction to important people and companies, events, concepts and practices that have defined the complementary fields of theatre and performance studies. Three easy-to-use alphabetized sections include entries on topics and people ranging from performance artists Marina Abramović and Pope.L to directors Vsevolod Meyerhold and Robert Wilson, the haka, Taking the Knee and disability, theatre and performance. Each entry includes important historical and contextual information, extensive cross-referencing, detailed analysis and an annotated bibliography. The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance is a perfect reference guide for the keen student and the passionate theatre-goer alike.