Performing Whitely in the Postcolony : Afrikaners in South African Theatrical and Public Life / / Megan Lewis

• Autore: Lewis Megan <1968->
• Pubblicazione: Iowa City : , : University of Iowa Press, , [2016]; ©2016
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (267 pages) : illustrations
• Disciplina: 792.0968
• Soggetto topico: White people - Race identity - South Africa; Afrikaners - Race identity - South Africa; Race relations in literature; White people in literature; Afrikaners in literature; Performing arts - South Africa; Theater - South Africa
• Soggetto geografico: South Africa Social conditions 21st century
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Preface: stakes of performance and race, north and south -- Introduction: whiteness in the global imaginary -- Laagers of whiteness: Afrikaner ascendency and the staging of a nation -- Rehearsing a white nation: Afrikaner performances of volk identity (1904-2009) -- Hyphens of humanity: whiteness and nostalgia in the work of Deon Opperman -- Queering Afrikanerdom: the performative maneuvers of Pieter-Dirk Uys -- Abject Afrikaner, iconoclast trekker: Peter van Heerden's performance interventions within the laagers of white masculinity -- Vuilgeboosted gangstas and romanties Afrikaner rappers: the zef whiteness of Die Antwoord and Jack Parow -- conclusion.
• Sommario/riassunto: What does it mean to perform whiteness in the postcolonial era? To answer this question-crucial for understanding the changing meanings of race in the twenty-first century-Megan Lewis examines the ways that members of South Africa's Afrikaner minority have performed themselves into, around, and out of power from the colonial period to the postcolony. The nation's first European settlers and in the twentieth century the architects of apartheid, since 1994 Afrikaners have been citizens of a multicultural, multilingual democracy. How have they enacted their whiteness in the past, and how do they do so now when their privilege has been deflated? ? Performing Whitely examines the multiple speech acts, political acts, and theatrical acts of the Afrikaner volk or nation in theatrical and public life, including pageants, museum sites, film, and popular music as well as theatrical productions. Lewis explores the diverse ways in which Afrikaners perform whitely, and the tactics they use, including nostalgia, melodrama, queering, abjection, and kitsch. She first investigates the way that apartheid's architects leveraged whiteness in support of their nation-building efforts in the early twentieth century. In addition to re-enacting national pilgrimages of colonial-era migrations and building massive monuments at home, Afrikaner nationalists took their show to the United States, staging critical events of the Boer War at the 1904 St. Louis Exposition. A case study of the South African experience, Performing Whitely also offers parables for global whitenesses in the postcolonial era.
• Titolo autorizzato: Performing Whitely in the Postcolony
• ISBN: 9781609384487; 1609384482
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910136080303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Studies in theatre history and culture.