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Holdsworth, Nadine.

English theatre and social abjectiona divided nation /

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	English theatre and social abjectionby Nadine Holdsworth.
Reminder of title:	a divided nation /
Author:	Holdsworth, Nadine.
Published:	London :Palgrave Macmillan UK :2020.
Description:	xi, 237 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm.
Contained By:	Springer Nature eBook
Subject:	Theater and societyEngland.
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-59777-9
ISBN:	9781137597779$q(electronic bk.)

English theatre and social abjectiona divided nation /
Holdsworth, Nadine.

English theatre and social abjectiona divided nation /[electronic resource] :by Nadine Holdsworth. - London :Palgrave Macmillan UK :2020. - xi, 237 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm. - Contemporary performance interactions. - Contemporary performance interactions..

1. Introduction - A Divided Nation: Theatre and Social Abjection -- 2. Chapter One - 'Anti-Northern Prejudice': Representing the Northern Subaltern -- 3. Chapter Two - 'You're All the Same, Lads with Bricks': Riots and Rioters -- 4. Chapter Three - Blighting these Green and Pleasant Lands: Gypsies and Travellers -- 5. Chapter Four - 'The Beast that Lies Dormant in the Belly of Our Country': Race, Nation and Belonging.

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.

ISBN: 9781137597779$q(electronic bk.)

Standard No.: 10.1057/978-1-137-59777-9doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

460990
Theater and society
--England.

LC Class. No.: PN1643 / .H653 2020

Dewey Class. No.: 306.4848

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