South African performance and archives of memory

✍ Scribed by Yvette Hutchison

Publisher: Manchester University Press
Year: 2015
Tongue: English
Leaves: 251
Series: Theatre: Theory – Practice – Performance
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

Front matter
Contents
List of illustrations
Acknowledgements
Note on terminology
Introduction
The Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s reconfiguring of the past: remembering and forgetting
Dramatising the Truth and Reconciliation Commission: the role of theatre practitioners in exploring the past
Staging a nation: the Voortrekker Monument and Freedom Park
Performing the African Renaissance and the ‘rainbow nation’
Post-apartheid repertoires of memory
Select bibliography
Index

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