Contemporary Black and Asian Women Playwrights in Britain [Hardcover]

This text was the first monograph to examine plays by Black and Asian women in Britain.This is the first monograph to document and analyse plays by Black and Asian women in Britain. Plays by writers such as Tanika Gupta, Winsome Pinnock, and Amrit Wilson, among others, are discussed in some detail. The volume analyses concerns such as reverse migration (in the form of tourism), sexploitation, arranged marriages, the racialization of sexuality, and asylum seeking as they emerge in the plays, and argues that Black and Asian women playwrights have become constitutive subjects of British theatre.This is the first monograph to document and analyse plays by Black and Asian women in Britain. Plays by writers such as Tanika Gupta, Winsome Pinnock, and Amrit Wilson, among others, are discussed in some detail. The volume analyses concerns such as reverse migration (in the form of tourism), sexploitation, arranged marriages, the racialization of sexuality, and asylum seeking as they emerge in the plays, and argues that Black and Asian women playwrights have become constitutive subjects of British theatre.Plays by writers such as Tanika Gupta, Winsome Pinnock, and Amrit Wilson, among others, are included in the first monograph to document plays by Black and Asian women in Britain. The volume analyzes concerns such as reverse migration (in the form of tourism), sexploitation, arranged marriages, the racialization of sexuality, and asylum seeking as they emerge in the plays. It argues that Black and Asian women playwrights have become constitutive subjects of British theater.List of illustrations; Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction; 2. Diasporic subjects; 3. Geographies of un/belonging; 4. Unsettling identities; 5. Culture clashes; 6. Racing sexuality; 7. Sexploitation?; 8. Living diaspora now; Notes; References; Index. Gabriele Griffin's Contemporary Black and Asian Women Playwrights in Britain prevails over tis naming and provides strong focus to hold together its study of thlsU