Remembering in the postcolony : refiguring the past with theatre

Fleishman, Mark

Remembering in the postcolony : refiguring the past with theatre

Doctoral Thesis

2012

Publisher

University of Cape Town

Department

Department of Drama

Faculty

Faculty of Humanities

Abstract

This thesis is a study of remembering in the postcolony. A remembering that is less about the need to forestall forgetting than it is about a putting back together of the fractured body. It suggests that while the postcolony demands remembering, its particularities render remembering highly problematic if not impossible. It argues that performance and a particular piece of dramaturgy is one way of intervening in this process of remembering; one way of making the silent dead speak, because performance is connected to both time and silence in key ways.

Description

Includes bibliographical references.

Keywords

Drama

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Collections

PhD / Doctoral

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