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

中央剧院和国家剧院黑人戏剧档案馆 (BPA) 之间的这一合作博士项目将生成关于 20 世纪 60 年代至 1980 年代后殖民时期英国国家发展的原创叙述，其根源在于目前大多不为人知的厄尔·洛夫莱斯 (Earl Lovelace)、穆斯塔法·马图拉 (Mustapha Matura) 和丹尼斯·斯科特 (Dennis Scott) 的戏剧。该项目将检索现在通常被忽视的英国黑人剧本创作的加勒比海风格。它还将对英国民族身份的描述进行批评，这些描述过分强调白人，而未能通过英属加勒比种植园社会的经济结构、种族化关系和生活经历的典型案例来解释国家的殖民建设，这些对国家来说是基础，但又处于国家之外。利用洛夫莱斯、马图拉和斯科特的作品，发展了在殖民时期构成英国性的多种文化翻译的修复历史。

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.