Staging Black Feminisms

Abstract

Staging Black Feminisms sets out to challenge perceptions of black women's theatre work as inherently feminist. Drawing on black feminist theories of identity and theories of black and feminist performance form, it analyzes key themes such as migration, motherhood, sexuality, mixed race identity and interracial relationships, in a range of late twentieth- and early twenty-first-century black British women's plays and performances. Case studies explore plays by Winsome Pinnock, Jackie Kay, Valerie Mason John, Jacqueline Rudet and debbie tucker green, alongside devised performance, dance, poetry and live art by Black Mime Theatre Women's Troop, Patience Agbabi, SuAndi, Dorothea Smartt and Susan Lewis.