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Identity and difference without opposition : constructing and exposing strategic subjectivities for social comic comment
Includes abstract.
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2014
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| author | Price, Alicia MV |
| author2 | Mills, Liz |
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| spelling | oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/8165 Identity and difference without opposition : constructing and exposing strategic subjectivities for social comic comment Price, Alicia MV Mills, Liz Weare, Christopher Theatre and Performance Includes abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 34-37). This explication is an investigation into comedy as a medium for constructing strategic subjectivities and the potential holds for diffusing experiences of difference in contemporary South African contexts. Our culture is on that encounters difference and often experiences these moments as threatening. Comedy creates the opportunity for engagement with other subjective experiences, however, this potential is in my opinion, mostly wasted and performances tend instead to support the dominant social discourse. By examining the nature of subjectivity and identity within a postmodern, technologically connected culture, the active agency of the audience is kindled by the performer. The strategies of this encounter are discussed in relation to Lawrence Mintz's theories of the licensed spokesperson and the negative exemplar. 2014-10-06T11:34:34Z 2014-10-06T11:34:34Z 2008 Master Thesis Masters MA http://hdl.handle.net/11427/8165 eng application/pdf Department of Drama Faculty of Humanities University of Cape Town |
| spellingShingle | Theatre and Performance Price, Alicia MV Identity and difference without opposition : constructing and exposing strategic subjectivities for social comic comment |
| thesis_degree_str | Master's |
| title | Identity and difference without opposition : constructing and exposing strategic subjectivities for social comic comment |
| title_full | Identity and difference without opposition : constructing and exposing strategic subjectivities for social comic comment |
| title_fullStr | Identity and difference without opposition : constructing and exposing strategic subjectivities for social comic comment |
| title_full_unstemmed | Identity and difference without opposition : constructing and exposing strategic subjectivities for social comic comment |
| title_short | Identity and difference without opposition : constructing and exposing strategic subjectivities for social comic comment |
| title_sort | identity and difference without opposition constructing and exposing strategic subjectivities for social comic comment |
| topic | Theatre and Performance |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/11427/8165 |
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