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Subalternity and the negotiation of a theatre identity : performing the postcolony alternative Zimbabwean theatre

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Main Author: Ravengai, Samuel
Other Authors: Morris, Gay
Format: Thesis
Language:English
Published: Department of Drama 2015
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spelling oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/14316 Subalternity and the negotiation of a theatre identity : performing the postcolony alternative Zimbabwean theatre Ravengai, Samuel Morris, Gay Garuba, Harry Theatre Performance Includes bibliographical references. The present study investigates the field of theatre practice that I have chosen to call alternative Zimbabwean theatre through a detailed study of four plays and reference to several others all first performed and written between 1980 and 1996. The study interrogates the interweaving and juxtaposition of divergent performance forms and styles on stage created by the contact between western dramatic theatre, indigenous theatre and cultural performances. This contact results in the formation of a third space for theatre which is a creative area of ambivalence, sameness, difference, conflict, struggle, mocking and celebration. The study specifically scrutinises this intersecting area as it obtains in alternative theatre and examines the forces at work in producing the nature and identity of syncretic theatre. Between 1980 and 1996, the nature and identity of alternative theatre changed significantly. This thesis investigates these changes, movements, shifts, conflicts and appropriations and the context within which they took place. 2015-10-25T17:07:09Z 2015-10-25T17:07:09Z 2011 Doctoral Thesis Doctoral PhD http://hdl.handle.net/11427/14316 eng application/pdf Department of Drama Faculty of Humanities University of Cape Town
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Subalternity and the negotiation of a theatre identity : performing the postcolony alternative Zimbabwean theatre
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title Subalternity and the negotiation of a theatre identity : performing the postcolony alternative Zimbabwean theatre
title_full Subalternity and the negotiation of a theatre identity : performing the postcolony alternative Zimbabwean theatre
title_fullStr Subalternity and the negotiation of a theatre identity : performing the postcolony alternative Zimbabwean theatre
title_full_unstemmed Subalternity and the negotiation of a theatre identity : performing the postcolony alternative Zimbabwean theatre
title_short Subalternity and the negotiation of a theatre identity : performing the postcolony alternative Zimbabwean theatre
title_sort subalternity and the negotiation of a theatre identity performing the postcolony alternative zimbabwean theatre
topic Theatre Performance
url http://hdl.handle.net/11427/14316
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