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Impermanence and Displacement in Weldon rising, the strip and Never Land by Phyllis Nagy
No full textAn exploration of issues in Nagy's work relating to theories of cultural hybridity and the fluidity of identity the characters encompass
The Fluidity of Bodies, Gender, Identity and Structure in the Plays of Sarah Kane
No full textAlternatives Within the Mainstream II follows from the first volume’s dedication to a critical appreciation of and a tracing of trajectories of the theatres of our Others on the British stage. The first volume Alternatives Within the Mainstream: British Black and Asian Theatres traced a history of Black and Asian British plays, playwrights, theatre companies and theatre voices. The two volumes celebrate the plurality on the post-war British stage in terms of class, gender, race and sexualities.
Alternatives Within the Mainstream II: Queer Theatres in Post-war Britain is an introduction to queer sexualities and their presence on the post-war British stage. From an introduction which addresses the possibilities of an undoing of repressiveness in desiring another, this volume charts a history of queer on the British stage, from a climate of sexual repressiveness and criminalisation, to a period of legal acceptance of homosexual desire. It covers gay, les, trans and queer British theatres, the influence of American queer theatre, AIDS consciousness, black queer theatre and television drama. Alternatives Within the Mainstream II: Queer Theatres in Post-war Britain is aimed as an introductory text which introduces the several plays, playwrights, theatre companies and queer theorists to students and scholars of contemporary queer British theatres.
This book is dedicated to Anthony Blair and the Labour government for bringing in the Civil Partnerships Act
Writing Black Back: An Overview of Black Theatre and Performance in Britain
No full textBlack people have lived in Britain longer than they have in the United States and yet, until the closing decade of the twentieth century, their contribution to British theatre has received limited and short-lived attention. In this essay I trace a trajectory of representation of black people in theatre from the early modern through to the pre-Windrush period to recognize that which has paved the way to the increasing visibility of contemporary black British playwrights of African descent in theatre of the new millennium
Aunt Mary: The Dialectics of Desire
Get PDFThis paper seeks to analyse the roles of the three transgendered characters of Pam Gems\u27 play Aunt Mary. Sinfield and other western metropolitan theorists\u27 1990s discovery via Other (mainly Eastern) cultures that there are "radically different ways in which [gay] people can conceive their subjectivity and focus their desire" is an issue pre-figured by Pam Gems in Aunt Mary by nearly a decade. Written as far back as 1982, the drama anticipates much of the gay, transgender and transvestism theorizing of the 90s and the present day. Gems is on the pulse of cultural iconology by having written this piece so early and what is interesting is that the characters escape easy definitions and tidy categorizations. This is a performance of the identity of drag and queer framed by a play: the shifting and fluid space in which the identities of the players locate themselves is a study in the psychology of transgendering, transvestism, and transsexualism. "[T]o take sex out of transvestism is like taking music out of opera" (H. Benjamin, The Transsexual Phenomenon). "It is not the reader\u27s \u27person\u27 that is necessary to me, it is this site: the possibility of a dialectics of desire, of an unpredictability of bliss: the bets are not placed, there can still be a game" (Roland Barthes, The Pleasure of the Text)
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
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