The Palgrave Handbook of Theatre and Race

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xvi

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2. Introduction

   • Tiziana Morosetti, Osita Okagbue

   Pages 1-17

3. Race and Racism in Contemporary Theatre

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 19-19

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   2. The American Theatrical Canon and the Struggle for Racial Equality in British Theatre

      • Jami Rogers

      Pages 21-37

   3. Racialisation and Contemporary German Theatre

      • Priscilla Layne, Lizzie Stewart

      Pages 39-60

   4. ‘Dangerous Dialogues’: Questioning Constructions of Race in South Pacific Theatre

      • David O’Donnell, Shailesh Lal

      Pages 61-79

   5. Staging the Ambiguities of Race: Polymorphous Indigenous Dramaturgies in Canada

      • Marc Maufort

      Pages 81-99

   6. Representing the Roma Experience on the Contemporary Romanian Stage: The Intersectional Lenses of Giuvlipen’s Anti-racist and Feminist Theatre Works

      • Diana Benea

      Pages 101-120

4. War, Conflict and the Nation

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 121-121

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   2. Race as Category in Nazi German Theatre

      • Anselm Heinrich

      Pages 123-139

   3. Māori Theatre in Not-Quite-Post-Colonial Aotearoa New Zealand

      • Sharon Mazer

      Pages 141-158

   4. Racial Nationalism and the Serbian Theatre: From Radovan III to DAH

      • Dennis Barnett

      Pages 159-176

   5. The Palestinians in Israeli Theatre

      • Dan Urian

      Pages 177-193

   6. Faces of a Long Unspoken Collective Trauma: Theatrical Representations of Friendship, Love, Betrayal, and Pain in the Landscape of War in Contemporary Turkey

      • Deniz Başar

      Pages 195-217

   7. Staging Race in White South African Afrikaans Theatre

      • David Peimer

      Pages 219-236

5. Blackness and the African Diaspora

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 237-237

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   2. In the Prison of Their Skins: Performing Race in Caribbean Theatre

      • Osita Okagbue

      Pages 239-254

   3. Black Women in Post-revolutionary Cuban Theatre

      • Lilianne Lugo Herrera

      Pages 255-272

   4. Black Performances and Black Artists Performing in Contemporary Brazil

      • Victor Hugo Leite de Aquino Soares, Roberta K. Matsumoto

      Pages 273-290

   5. Lackface: Blackface Masking in Contemporary US Theatre

      • Kevin Byrne

      Pages 291-306

The first comprehensive publication on the subject, this book investigates interactions between racial thinking and the stage in the modern and contemporary world, with 25 essays on case studies that will shed light on areas previously neglected by criticism while providing fresh perspectives on already-investigated contexts. Examining performances from Europe, the Americas, the Middle East, Africa, China, Australia, New Zealand, and the South Pacifi c islands, this collection ultimately frames the history of racial narratives on stage in a global context, resetting understandings of race in public discourse.

• Race
• Empire
• The Other
• Ethnicity
• War
• Segregation
• Non-European
• Whiteness
• Performance
• Stereotype
• African
• Refugees
• Global
• ethnicity, class, gender and crime

• Department of Theatre and Performance, Goldsmiths, University of London, London, UK

  Tiziana Morosetti, Osita Okagbue

Tiziana Morosetti is an Associate Lecturer with the Department of Theatre and Performance at Goldsmiths, University of London, UK. She also teaches African Literature at the African Studies Centre, Oxford, UK. She is the editor of Staging the Other in Nineteenth-Century British Drama (2016) and Africa on the Contemporary London Stage (2018). She is the deputy director of the journal Quaderni del ’900, and the General Secretary of the African Theatre Association (AfTA). 


Osita Okagbue is a Professor of Theatre and Performance at Goldsmiths, University of London, UK. His published works include African Theatres and Performances (2007), Culture and Identity in African and Caribbean Theatre (2009), African Theatre: Diasporas (2009), co-edited with Christine Matzke, and Performative Inter-Actions in African Theatre 1, 2 & 3 (2013), with Dr Kene Igweonu. More recently, he has co-authored, with Professor Samuel Kasule, East African Theatres and Performances (2020).

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