Staging black feminisms : identity, politics, performance Lynette Goddard.

PART I: HISTORY AND AESTHETICS -- Black British Women and Theatre: An Overview -- Black Feminist Performance Aesthetics -- PART II: PLAYS -- Winsome Pinnock's Migration Narratives -- Jacqueline Rudet (Re)Writing Sexual Deviancy -- Jackie Kay and Valerie Mason-John's Zamis, Lesbians and Queers -- PART III: PERFORMANCES -- Black Mime Theatre Women's Troops -- Solo Voices: Performance Art, Dance and Poetry -- PART IV: CONCLUSIONS -- Black Feminist Futures?

Staging Black Feminisms explores the development and principles of black British women's plays and performance since the late Twentieth century. Using contemporary performance theory to explore key themes (such as migration, motherhood, sexuality, and mixed race identity), it offers close textual readings and production analysis of a range of plays, performance poetry and live art works by practitioners, including Patience Agbabi, Jackie Kay, Valerie Mason John, Winsome Pinnock, Jacqueline Rudet, Debbie Tucker Green, Dorothea Smartt, Su Andi, and Susan Lewis.