Description
Embodied performance in South Africa has particular potency because apartheid was so centrally focused on the body: classifying bodies into racial categories, legislating where certain bodies could move and which bathrooms and drinking fountains certain bodies could use, and how different bodies carried meaning. The majority of artists analyzed here are people of color, a necessary corrective to the white-dominated nature of South African performance scholarship. As the artists featured here imagine new forms, they are helping audiences see the contemporary moment as it is: an important intervention in a country long predicated on denial. They are also helping to conjure, anticipate, and dream a world that is otherwise. The book will be of particular interest to scholars of African studies, black performance, dance studies, transitional justice, as well as theater and performance studies.
About the Author
Catherine M. Cole is Professor of Drama and Divisional Dean of the Arts at the University of Washington.
Book Information
ISBN 9780472074587
Author Catherine Cole
Format Hardback
Page Count 304
Imprint The University of Michigan Press
Publisher The University of Michigan Press
Weight(grams) 333g