The Plantation Nation: Imaginations of Post-National Britain in the plays of Earl Lovelace, Mustapha Matura and Dennis Scott

这个由中央和国家剧院的黑人戏剧档案馆（BPA）合作的博士项目将产生一个从20世纪60年代到80年代后殖民时期英国国家发展的原始描述，植根于厄尔·洛夫莱斯、穆斯塔法·马图拉和丹尼斯·斯科特现在主要不知名的戏剧。该项目将恢复加勒比黑人英国剧本的风格，现在通常被忽视。它还将对英国国家认同的描述进行批判，这些描述过度强调白人，未能通过经济结构、种族化关系和英国-加勒比种植园社会的生活经历等典型案例来解释国家的殖民建设，这些对国家至关重要，但却被置于国家之外。利用洛夫莱斯、马图拉和斯科特的作品，对殖民时期构成英国性的多种文化翻译进行修复。

This collaborative doctoral project between Central and the National Theatre's Black Plays Archive (BPA) will generate an original account of the development of post-colonial British nationhood from the 1960s to the 1980s, rooted in the now mainly unknown plays of Earl Lovelace, Mustapha Matura and Dennis Scott. The project will retrieve a Caribbean strand of Black British playwriting that is now usually overlooked. It will also develop a critique of accounts of British national identity that over-emphasise whiteness and fail to account for the nation's colonial construction through the exemplary case of the economic structures, racialised relations and lived experiences of British-Caribbean plantation societies, that were fundamental to the nation and yet positioned outside it. Using the work of Lovelace, Matura, and Scott to develop a reparative history of the multiple cultural translations that constituted Britishness in its colonial phase.