South African performance and archives of memory 1st Edition by Yvette Hutchison 0719083737 9780719083730

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ISBN 10: 0719083737

ISBN 13: 9780719083730

Author: Yvette Hutchison

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.

South African performance and archives of memory 1st Table of contents:

1 The Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s reconfiguring of the past: remembering and forgetting

2 Dramatising the Truth and Reconciliation Commission: 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

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