Women's Activist Theatre in Jamaica and South Africa

Gender, Race, and Performance Space

Nicosia M. Shakes (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

232 Seiten

2023
University of Illinois Press (Verlag)
978-0-252-08737-0 (ISBN)

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Theater is an essential theoretical and practical site for forging Black radical thought, Africana feminisms, and womanism. Nicosia M. Shakes draws on ethnographic research in Jamaica and South Africa to analyze the vital relationship between activism and theater production. Concentrating on four performance events, Shakes situates the work of theater groups and projects within a trajectory of women-led social justice movements established in Jamaica, South Africa, and globally from the early 2000s to the present. Her analysis reveals movements driven by Black women’s artistic, intellectual, and organizational labor and focused on issues that range from sexual violence to reproductive justice to the spatial manifestations of racial, gender, and economic oppression. Shakes shows how theater’s political and pedagogical roles become entangled with histories and geographies of oppression and resistance; the identities and connections created by movements of people in the context of colonial and settler colonial histories; and ideas of womanism and feminism.

Nicosia M. Shakes is an assistant professor of history and critical race and ethnic studies at the University of California, Merced.

Acknowledgments A Note on Terms and Concepts

Introduction: Race, Gender, Space

“Mek Wi Choose fi Wiself”: Performing a Discourse of Justice in A Slice of Reality
“The Wound is Still There”: Walk: South Africa and the Ontological Violence of Rape
“Mi a go try release yu”: Mourning, Memory, and Violence in A Vigil for Roxie.
“Alternative Spaces”: Black Self-Making, Space-Making, and the Work of Olive Tree Theatre

Coda: Performing Activism across Space and Time Notes

Bibliography

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Erscheinungsdatum	19.08.2023
Reihe/Serie	NWSA / UIP First Book Prize
Zusatzinfo	12 black & white photographs
Verlagsort	Baltimore
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	286 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-252-08737-2 / 0252087372
ISBN-13	978-0-252-08737-0 / 9780252087370
Zustand	Neuware