06024nam 2200889 450 991082392750332120200107122555.01-5261-0324-91-5261-0323-0(CKB)3710000000529341(SSID)ssj0001590099(PQKBManifestationID)16284130(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001590099(PQKBWorkID)12670904(PQKB)10304368(MiAaPQ)EBC4706869(OCoLC)980737486(MdBmJHUP)muse59396(UkMaJRU)992980041124301631(DE-B1597)660318(DE-B1597)9781526103239(EXLCZ)99371000000052934120200107h20152013 uy| 0engur||#---|||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierSouth African performance and archives of memory /Yvette HutchisonManchester, UK :Manchester University Press,2015.©20131 online resource (xii, 238 pages) illustrations; digital file(s)Theatre : theory, practice, performanceBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph1-78499-366-2 0-7190-8373-7 Includes bibliographical references and index.Introduction -- 1. 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 Park -- 4. Performing the African Renaissance and the 'Rainbow Nation' -- 5. Post-apartheid repertoires of memory -- Bibliography.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."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. The particular contribution of this study is its focus on the role of performance in South Africa's renegotiation of memory and historical understanding, as exemplified in public events such as the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, the South Africa-Mali Timbuktu Manuscript Project and the 2010 World Cup opening ceremony, and in memorial sites such as the Voortrekker Monument and Freedom Park. The book explores the implications of translating diverse embodied memories into a coherent, official national narrative that is usually defined and made coherent that is, over-simplified - by the state, which defines South Africa as a unitary 'rainbow nation'. The book compares official narratives that have tended to define how the 'new' South Africa is remembering the past to various theatrical engagements with memory that highlight specific disavowed themes which recur in post-apartheid South African theatre, which include exile, ghosts and hauntings, masculinity, and the tension between justice and reconciliation. The analyses extend beyond thematic accounts to include exploring the reasons for and effects of juxtaposing 'realist' and 'verbatim' aesthetics to more exaggerated, hyper-theatricalised forms. Ultimately this book argues for keeping archives and repertoires open to reinvestigation and reinterpretation, and in dialogue with one another." -- Back cover.Theatre (Manchester, England)TheaterPolitical aspectsSouth AfricaCollective memorySouth AfricaSouth African dramaHistory and criticismTheatre StudiesmupRepublic Of South AfricabicsscPERFORMING ARTS / Theater / GeneralbisachLiterary studies: plays & playwrightsthemaElectronic books. Mbeki.South Africa-Mali project.South African performance.Truth and Reconciliation Commission archive.cultural identities.cultural practitioners.memory.national identities.political crisis.post-apartheid South Africa.social structure.state sanctioned-performances.theatrical engagements.verbatim narratives.TheaterPolitical aspectsCollective memorySouth African dramaHistory and criticism.Theatre StudiesRepublic Of South AfricaPERFORMING ARTS / Theater / GeneralLiterary studies: plays & playwrights792.0968Hutchison Yvette1698714UkMaJRUBOOK9910823927503321South African performance and archives of memory4080396UNINA