ISBN:
9781137597779
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (245 pages)
Series Statement:
Contemporary Performance InterActions Ser.
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
306.4848
Keywords:
Drama History and criticism
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Theater and society
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Drama-History and criticism..
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Theater and society-England
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National characteristics in the theater..
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Electronic books
Abstract:
Intro -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- List of Figures -- 1 Introduction: A Divided Nation-English Theatre and Social Abjection -- From Welfare State to Neoliberalism -- Neoliberalism = 'Wasted Humans' -- Theatre and Social Abjection -- Structure of the Book -- References -- 2 'Anti-Northern Prejudice': Representing the Northern Subaltern -- Constructing the North as 'Other' -- The Industrial/Deindustrialised North -- It's Grim up North: Staging the Socially Abject North -- 'There's More to Life Than Culture, There's Dirt and Smoke and Good Honest Sweat': Nostalgia, the North and Mining Communities -- References -- 3 'You're All the Same, Lads with Bricks': Riots and Rioters -- Reading Riots: England 1981-2011 -- Reading Riots: Common Responses -- An Urgent Response Is Necessary: Oi for England -- It's Not 'Criminality, Pure and Simple': The Riots -- Wasted Youth/Wasted Communities: Bryony Lavery's Goliath -- More Than 'Race Riots': Mixed up North -- Who Speaks and Who Is Heard?: Alecky Blythe's Little Revolution -- References -- 4 Blighting These Green and Pleasant Lands: Gypsies and Travellers -- Sedentarism Versus Nomadism: Gypsies and Travellers as Disruptive Anti-citizens -- 'But This Is Your Place. This Is Your Place' -- Narratives of Expulsion: Gypsies and Travellers in the Twenty-First Century -- 'Now Kiss My Beggar Arse, You Puritans!': Jez Butterworth's Jerusalem -- Conclusion: The Gypsy as Cipher -- References -- 5 'The Beast That Lies Dormant in the Belly of Our Country': Race, Nation and Belonging -- Brexit and the Crisis of Multiculturalism -- 'Restore Our Sense of Dignity, of Community, of Pride': Class, Race and Culture in Anders Lustgarten's a Day at the Racists -- 'The Beast That Lies Dormant in the Belly of Our Country': Fall of the Kingdom, Rise of the Foot Soldier.
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