South African performance and archives of memory (eBook)

Yvette Hutchison (Autor)

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2015
256 Seiten
Manchester University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5261-0324-6 (ISBN)

Infos

This book argues that memory functions as a key element in contemporary South African re-imagining of historical events and in constructing new definitions of national and personal identity. It compares two ways in which memory is embodied: in repertoires of practices, songs, dance, rituals, and in material archives, texts, documents, buildings.

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This book explores how South Africa is negotiating its past in and through various modes of performance in contemporary theatre, public events and memorial spaces. It analyses the Truth and Reconciliation Commission as a live event, as an archive, and in various theatrical engagements with it, asking throughout how the TRC has affected the definition of identity and memory in contemporary South Africa, including disavowed memories. Hutchison then considers how the SA-Mali Timbuktu Manuscript Project and the 2010 South African World Cup opening ceremony attempted to restage the nation in their own ways. She investigates how the Voortrekker Monument and Freedom Park embody issues related to memory in contemporary South Africa. She also analyses current renegotiations of popular repertoires, particularly songs and dances related to the Struggle, revivals of classic European and South African protest plays, new history plays and specific racial and ethnic histories and identities.

Autor

Yvette Hutchison is Associate Professor in the School of Theatre, Performance and Cultural Policy Studies at the University of Warwick, UK

Inhalt

Introduction
1. The TRC’s Reconfiguring of the Past: Remembering and Forgetting
2. Dramatising the TRC: The role of theatre practitioners in exploring the past
3. Staging a nation: the Voortrekker Monument and Freedom Park
4. Performing the African Renaissance and the ‘Rainbow Nation’
5. Post-apartheid repertoires of memory
Bibliography

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.11.2015
• Reihe/Serie: Theatre: Theory – Practice – Performance
• Zusatzinfo: Halftones, black & white
• Verlagsort: Manchester
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 140 x 140 mm
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Schlagworte: cultural identities • cultural practitioners • Mbeki • Memory • National identities • Political Crisis • post-Apartheid South Africa • Social Structure • South Africa-Mali project • South African performance • state sanctioned-performances • theatrical engagements • Truth and Reconciliation Commission archive • verbatim narratives
• ISBN-10: 1-5261-0324-9 / 1526103249
• ISBN-13: 978-1-5261-0324-6 / 9781526103246