Finance, Terror, and Science on Stage

Kerstin Frank and Caroline LusinIntroduction: Current Debates and British Drama since 2000I. PoliticsMerle TönniesStill / Again 'Political'? New Approaches to Questioning Powerin Mike Bartlett's 13 (2011)Peter Paul SchniererImmigration as Farce: Richard Bean'sEngland People Very Nice (2009)Ariane de WaalExpel, Exploit, Exfoliate: Taking on Terror inMark Ravenhill's Shoot / Get Treasure / Repeat (2007)II. Finance and AusterityCaroline LusinSurviving Boom and Bust: Finance, Responsibility,and the State of the World in Nicholas Pierpan'sYou Can Still Make a Killing (2012)Annika GonnermannHomo Homini Rhino Est: April De Angelis' Wild East (2005)and the Deconstruction of Responsibility in Corporate CultureDorothee BirkeThe 'Underclass' Talks Back: Poverty and Homelessness inNadia Fall's Home (2013)III. Science and TechnologyChristine SchwaneckeData Streams, Post-Human Lives, and (Virtual) Realities:Jules Horne's Gorgeous Avatar (2006)Maurus RollerA Critical Review of Science: Caryl Churchill's A Number (2002),Individual Identity, and Human CloningStefan Glomb"No View from Nowhere": Science, Freedom,and Determinism in Nick Payne's Incognito (2014)IV. Cultural IdentityLisa SchwanderRe-Visiting the British Empire: Neo-Victorian Perspectives onMulticultural Britain in Tanika Gupta's The Empress (2013)Kerstin FrankDefusing Stereotypes with Comedy: Conflicting Afro-CaribbeanBritish Identities and Urban Street Culture in Bola Agbaje'sGone Too Far! (2007)Abir Al-LahamApple Stores and Jihadi Brides: Hassan Abdulrazzak'sLove, Bombs and Apples (2016) and the Role of Religion inContemporary British Society

Dr. Kerstin Frank habilitiert in englischer Literaturwissenschaft an der Universität Heidelberg.

Prof. Dr. Caroline Lusin ist Inhaberin des Lehrstuhls Anglistik II (Anglistische Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaft) an der Universität Mannheim.