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With Black Plays, Yvonne Brewster clearly demonstrated the need for a regular anthology to record the vitality of Black playwriting. For her second volume she has selected The Dragon Can't Dance, adapted from a novel by Earl Lovelace in which the inhabitants of Port of Spain, Trinidad, prepare to live out their dreams on Carnival Night; Winsome Pinnock's A Rock in Water, an energetic chronicle play about activist Claudia Jones, one of the founders of the Notting Hill Carnival; Blood, Sweat and Fears by Maria Oshodi which focuses on the problems of the ten per cent of Britain's black population who suffer from sickle cell anaemia and Job Rocking by Rastafarian poet Benjamin Zephaniah, a 'dub' opera set in and around a new style job club designed to sell the idea of work to the unemployed.

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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Society & culture: general Social groups

• Full title: Black Plays: 2
• Subtitle: The Dragon Can't Dance; A Rock in Water; Blood Sweat and Fears; Job Rocking
• Author: Earl Lovelace, Winsome Pinnock, Benjamin Zephaniah, Maria Oshodi
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 184
• EAN: 9780413614704
• ISBN: 0413614700
• ID: 04605924
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
• Weight: 246 g
• Dimensions: 140 × 215 × 19 mm
• Date of publishing: 01. January 1989

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