Acts of Activism - Human Rights As Radical Performance

Klappentext A story of activists in South Saharan Africa using performance as a tactic of resistance and intervention in their struggles for human rights. Zusammenfassung This 2010 book presents the neglected yet compelling and necessary story of local activists in South Saharan Africa who employ modes of performance as tactics of resistance and intervention in their day-to-day struggles for human rights. The dynamic relationship between performance and activism are illustrated in three case studies. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Act I. Is it a human being or a girl?; Act II. Water rites/rights; Act III. Acts of activism; Epilogue; Appendices: Scripts: Appendix 1. Is it a human being or a girl?; Appendix 2. Water rites; Bibliography; Index.

Product details

• Authors: D. Soyini Madison, D. Soyini (Northwestern University Madison, Madison D. Soyini
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 10.05.2012
• EAN: 9781107404380
• ISBN: 978-1-107-40438-0
• No. of pages: 336
• Series: Theatre and Performance Theory; Theatre and Performance Theory
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; Cultural Studies, DRAMA / General, Theatre Studies, Literature & literary studies, Literature: history & criticism, Sociology: sport and leisure, Theatre Direction & Production, Theatre direction and production, Street theatre