South African Performance and Archives of Memory

Informationen zum Autor Yvette Hutchison is Associate Professor in the School of Theatre, Performance and Cultural Policy Studies at the University of Warwick, UK Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. -- . Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction1. 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 Park4. Performing the African Renaissance and the 'Rainbow Nation'5. Post-apartheid repertoires of memoryBibliography

Product details

• Authors: Yvette Hutchison, Hutchison Yvette
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 18.05.2016
• EAN: 9781784993665
• ISBN: 978-1-78499-366-5
• No. of pages: 256
• Series: Theatre: Theory - Practice - Performance; Theatre: Theory – Practice – Performance
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; English, LITERARY CRITICISM / Drama, LITERARY CRITICISM / African, Republic of South Africa, Literary studies: plays & playwrights, Literary studies: plays and playwrights