LEADER 06024nam 2200889 450 001 9910823927503321 005 20200107122555.0 010 $a1-5261-0324-9 010 $a1-5261-0323-0 035 $a(CKB)3710000000529341 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001590099 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)16284130 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001590099 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)12670904 035 $a(PQKB)10304368 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4706869 035 $a(OCoLC)980737486 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse59396 035 $a(UkMaJRU)992980041124301631 035 $a(DE-B1597)660318 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781526103239 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000529341 100 $a20200107h20152013 uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||#---||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aSouth African performance and archives of memory /$fYvette Hutchison 210 1$aManchester, UK :$cManchester University Press,$d2015. 210 4$dİ2013 215 $a1 online resource (xii, 238 pages) $cillustrations; digital file(s) 225 1 $aTheatre : theory, practice, performance 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a1-78499-366-2 311 $a0-7190-8373-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntroduction -- 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. 330 $aThis 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. 330 8 $a"This book argues that memory functions as a key element in contemporary South African re-imagining of historical events and in constructing new definitions of national and personal identity. It compares two ways in which memory is embodied: in repertoires of practices, songs, dance, rituals, and in material archives, texts, documents, buildings. The particular contribution of this study is its focus on the role of performance in South Africa's renegotiation of memory and historical understanding, as exemplified in public events such as the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, the South Africa-Mali Timbuktu Manuscript Project and the 2010 World Cup opening ceremony, and in memorial sites such as the Voortrekker Monument and Freedom Park. The book explores the implications of translating diverse embodied memories into a coherent, official national narrative that is usually defined and made coherent that is, over-simplified - by the state, which defines South Africa as a unitary 'rainbow nation'. The book compares official narratives that have tended to define how the 'new' South Africa is remembering the past to various theatrical engagements with memory that highlight specific disavowed themes which recur in post-apartheid South African theatre, which include exile, ghosts and hauntings, masculinity, and the tension between justice and reconciliation. The analyses extend beyond thematic accounts to include exploring the reasons for and effects of juxtaposing 'realist' and 'verbatim' aesthetics to more exaggerated, hyper-theatricalised forms. Ultimately this book argues for keeping archives and repertoires open to reinvestigation and reinterpretation, and in dialogue with one another." -- Back cover. 410 0$aTheatre (Manchester, England) 606 $aTheater$xPolitical aspects$zSouth Africa 606 $aCollective memory$zSouth Africa 606 $aSouth African drama$xHistory and criticism 606 $aTheatre Studies$2mup 606 $aRepublic Of South Africa$2bicssc 606 $aPERFORMING ARTS / Theater / General$2bisach 606 $aLiterary studies: plays & playwrights$2thema 608 $aElectronic books. 610 $aMbeki. 610 $aSouth Africa-Mali project. 610 $aSouth African performance. 610 $aTruth and Reconciliation Commission archive. 610 $acultural identities. 610 $acultural practitioners. 610 $amemory. 610 $anational identities. 610 $apolitical crisis. 610 $apost-apartheid South Africa. 610 $asocial structure. 610 $astate sanctioned-performances. 610 $atheatrical engagements. 610 $averbatim narratives. 615 0$aTheater$xPolitical aspects 615 0$aCollective memory 615 0$aSouth African drama$xHistory and criticism. 615 7$aTheatre Studies 615 7$aRepublic Of South Africa 615 7$aPERFORMING ARTS / Theater / General 615 7$aLiterary studies: plays & playwrights 676 $a792.0968 700 $aHutchison$b Yvette$01698714 801 2$bUkMaJRU 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910823927503321 996 $aSouth African performance and archives of memory$94080396 997 $aUNINA