Giovanna Buonanno
Biographic Data
| ID | 6872922 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Giovanna Buonanno |
| GIVEN NAMES | Giovanna |
| FAMILY NAME | Buonanno |
| SIGNATURE | BUONANNO G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Modena and Reggio Emilia |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2144-9363 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Afterlives of empire in contemporary Black British women’s plays
Sarah Forbes Bonetta was an orphaned Yoruba girl who was enslaved by the King of Dahomey and then offered as a “gift” to Captain Frederick Forbes of the British Royal Navy in 1850. She was sent to England and eventually became Queen Victoria’s goddaughter. This article focuses on The Gift (2020), a play by British Nigerian playwright Janice Okoh which draws on Bonetta’s life. By means of a complex dramaturgical structure that uses multiple and co…
Mariacristina Cavecchi, The Art Gallery on Stage. New Vistas on Contemporary British Playwriting
Mariacristina Cavecchi, The Art Gallery on Stage. New Vistas on Contemporary British Playwriting (London-New York, Bloomsbury Methuen Drama Engage, 2024, 290 pp. ISBN 9781350330702)
From Page to Stage
The stage adaptation of Jackie Kay’s 2010 memoir Red Dust Road written by playwright Tanika Gupta premiered at the Edinburgh International Festival in 2019. The play dramatises Kay’s identity quest as a mixed-race child, born to a Scottish woman from the Highlands and a Nigerian student, and adopted as a baby by a Glaswegian couple in the early 1960s. The article will focus on the strategies Gupta deploys in her rewriting and argue that by incorp…
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From Page to Stage
The stage adaptation of Jackie Kay’s 2010 memoir Red Dust Road written by playwright Tanika Gupta premiered at the Edinburgh International Festival in 2019. The play dramatises Kay’s identity quest as a mixed-race child, born to a Scottish woman from the Highlands and a Nigerian student, and adopted as a baby by a Glaswegian couple in the early 1960s. The article will focus on the strategies Gupta deploys in her rewriting and argue that by incorp…
Mariacristina Cavecchi, The Art Gallery on Stage. New Vistas on Contemporary British Playwriting
Mariacristina Cavecchi, The Art Gallery on Stage. New Vistas on Contemporary British Playwriting (London-New York, Bloomsbury Methuen Drama Engage, 2024, 290 pp. ISBN 9781350330702)
Afterlives of empire in contemporary Black British women’s plays
Sarah Forbes Bonetta was an orphaned Yoruba girl who was enslaved by the King of Dahomey and then offered as a “gift” to Captain Frederick Forbes of the British Royal Navy in 1850. She was sent to England and eventually became Queen Victoria’s goddaughter. This article focuses on The Gift (2020), a play by British Nigerian playwright Janice Okoh which draws on Bonetta’s life. By means of a complex dramaturgical structure that uses multiple and co…
Theatre and Performance Studies (2 works) · Art gallery (1 work) · Artistic and Creative Research (1 work) · Black British (1 work) · British Empire (1 work) · Caribbean history, culture, and politics (1 work) · Colonialism (1 work) · Contemporary art (1 work) · Drama (1 work) · Empire (1 work)