The Palgrave Handbook of Theatre and Race

The ?rst 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 Paci? c islands, this collection ultimately frames the history of racial narratives on stage in a global context, resetting understandings of race in public discourse.

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).

Auteur
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).

Contenu
1.Introduction Part I.Race and Racism in Contemporary Theatre 2.The American Theatrical Canon and the Struggle for Racial Equality in British Theatre 3.Racialization and Contemporary German Theatre 4.Dangerous Dialogues': Questioning Constructions of Race in South Pacific Theatre 5.Staging the Ambiguities of Race: Polymorphous Indigenous Dramaturgies in Canada 6.Representing the Roma Experience on the Contemporary Romanian Stage: The Intersectional Lenses of Giuvlipen's Anti-racist and Feminist Theatre Works Part II.War, Conflict and the Nation 7.Race as Category in Nazi German Theatre 8.Mori Theatre in Not-Quite-Post-Colonial Aotearoa New Zealand 9.Racial Nationalism and the Serbian Theatre: From Radovan III to DAH 10.The Palestinians in the Israeli Theatre 11.Faces of a Long Unspoken Collective Trauma: Theatrical Representations of Friendship, Love, Betrayal, and Pain in the Landscape of War in Contemporary Turkey 12.Staging Race in White South African Afrikaans Theatre Part III.Blackness and the African Diaspora 13.In the Prison of Their Skins: Performing Race in Caribbean Theatre 14.Black Women in Post-revolutionary Cuban Theatreer 15.Black Performances and Black Artists Performing in Contemporary Brazil 16.Lackface: Blackface Masking in Contemporary US Theatre 17.Fighting Racism on the Contemporary Francophone Stage 18.'Though we are written into the landscape you don't see us' (Testament, 2018). Black Faces in White Spaces: Whiteness as Terror and the Terror of Un-belonging in Black Men Walking Part IV.Constructions of Whiteness and the 'Other' 19.'A Wretched CaricatureUnworthy of America': Charles Mathews's Representation of the Yankee 20.The Language of Blackness: Representations of Africans and African-Americans on the British Stage After Uncle Tom's Cabin 21.Susan Glaspell's Trifles and Inheritors: White Settler Hunger, Debt and the Blackhawk Purchase Lands 22.Beyond the Peyote Dance: The Raramuri Tribe and 'Mexico' Representations in Antonin Artaud's Work 23.Representing and Re-presenting Others in Yorùbá Performance 24.Pigs and Dogs and The Bogus Woman: Racialized Performance in Anglo-British Women Playwrights 25.Race, Occidentalism/Orientalism and Sino-centrism in Contemporary Chinese Theatre