The Plays of Martin Crimp - by Vicky Angelaki (Hardcover)

Book Synopsis

Children's texts are highly responsive to social change and to global politics, and are implicated in shaping the values of children and young people. New World Orders, now in paperback for the first time, shows how texts for children and young people have responded to the cultural, economic and political movements of the last fifteen years. With a focus on international children's texts produced between 1988 and 2006, the authors discuss how utopian and dystopian tropes are pressed into service to project possible futures to child readers. The book considers what these texts have to say about globalization, neocolonialism, environmental issues, pressures on families and communities, and the idea of the posthuman. This fascinating volume is the first thorough study of how children's books imagine and propose possible worlds and societies.

Review Quotes

'Throughout, Angelaki's deep admiration for and sustained engagement with Crimp's work is evident. This has its most positive effects in her combination of textual and performance analysis: for this reason, her book makes an extremely useful contribution to which future scholars will no doubt be indebted.' - Rachel Clements, New Theatre Quarterly

"Vicki Angelaki's The Plays of Martin Crimp is the first monograph to bring an original scholarly approach to Crimp's unusual and challenging body of work." Sean Carney, Theatre Research International

About the Author

VICKY ANGELAKI is Lecturer in Drama at the Department of Drama and Theatre Arts, University of Birmingham, UK. She publishes on modern, recent and contemporary British and European theatre in relation to audience perception, spectatorship and citizenship, politics and aesthetics, as well as translation and adaptation within a broader cultural context.