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

这个由中央剧院和国家剧院黑人戏剧档案馆(BPA)合作的博士项目将产生一个关于从20世纪60年代到80年代后殖民时代英国国家发展的原始描述，根植于厄尔·洛夫莱斯、穆斯塔法·马图拉和丹尼斯·斯科特现在主要不为人所知的戏剧。该项目将找回现在通常被忽视的加勒比海黑人英国剧本。它还将通过英国-加勒比海种植园社会的经济结构、种族主义关系和生活经历等典范案例，对英国国家认同的描述提出批评，这些描述过度强调白人，未能解释英国的殖民建设，这些对英国至关重要，但又处于国家之外。使用洛夫莱斯、马图拉和斯科特的作品，对构成英国殖民阶段的多元文化翻译的历史进行修复。

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.