Titlebook: English Theatre and Social Abjection; A Divided Nation Nadine Holdsworth Book 2020 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2020 Eng

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English Theatre and Social Abjection978-1-137-59777-9Series ISSN 2634-5870 Series E-ISSN 2634-5889

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-57127-5e against each other in ways that cast particular groups as threats to the nation or as unruly and demeaned citizens. It sets out the book’s concern with how these divisions are generated and circulated in public discourse and about how theatre is implicated in both counter-hegemonic and resistant n

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-58337-7 representations of the North in theatre often returns to a number of recurring motifs and contributes to certain cultural imaginaries of the North that refuse to re-route. In particular, it identifies two key trends discernible in this representation that differently situate the best days of the No

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-41987-5ation, citizenship and belonging. It addresses plays that explore the consequences emerging from the legacies of the British Empire and slavery that serve to cast black citizens as inferior disruptive presences to be feared and contained. It also engages with the ways that theatre-makers have tackle

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2634-5870 ysis of a range of important plays and performances.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 conseq

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-57127-5ed to groups. It introduces the conceptual paradigm of ‘social abjection’ and the presence of ‘social abjects’ that drives the book and raises questions around who is central, who is peripheral, who is included or excluded, valued or demeaned and how do the answers to these questions fold into a cultural imaginary of the nation?

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-41987-5complexities and complications of multiculturalism, call out endemic white privilege, the denigration of black subjectivities and confront the increasing tolerance of a far-right anti-immigrant rhetoric in twenty-first century Britain.