Inherited memories : performing the archive

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dc.contributor.advisorErasmus, Zimitrien_ZA
dc.contributor.advisorBanning, Yvonneen_ZA
dc.contributor.authorDavids, Nadiaen_ZA
dc.date.accessioned2014-09-15T07:32:38Z
dc.date.available2014-09-15T07:32:38Z
dc.date.issued2007en_ZA
dc.descriptionIncludes bibliographical references (leaves 204-220).en_ZA
dc.description.abstractThis thesis explores the way in which words, memories, and images of District Six are mediated and performed in an attempt to memorialised a destroyed urban landscape. It expands the borders of 'performance' to include oral (re)constructions of place by ex-residents, which in turn opens a space for a reflective analysis in which Marianne Hirsch’s psychodynamic theory of ‘postmemory’ is explored through the phrase ‘Children of District Six’. It traces the role and influence of ex-residents in shaping the politics and poetics of the District Six Museum and argues that orality and performance are singularly sympathetic in evoking and remembering the aesthetic, cultural, and political realms of District Six. It then shifts towards an analysis of two creative projects; Magnet Theater's Onnest’bo and the Museum’s Re-Imagining Carnival in which the themes of place, home, loss, exile, resistance, advocacy and restitution rotate around experiences of forced removals in general and District Six in particular. A thematic cord is created between these performance pieces and oral testimonies and their combined mediation of the many archives of District Six. Through an engagement with the performative odysseys and attendant archives of Re-Imagining Carnival and Onnest’bo the thesis examine metaphysical enactments of material loss, engages with tactics of re-construction of place and experience through memory, connects the psychic worlds of memory and performance and suggests an ideological flow between oral history, witnessing, and theatre. It is an exploration underpinned by the question of the role of performance in memorialising national narratives and the potential of creative mobilisations of memory in enacting psychic restitution. Both Onnest’bo and Re-Imagining Carnival are linked to the District Six Museum, and as such the Museum, its methodologies, ethics, ethos, and work with tangible and intangible heritage serve as an essential ideological foundation from which these creative visions emerge.en_ZA
dc.identifier.apacitationDavids, N. (2007). <i>Inherited memories : performing the archive</i>. (Thesis). University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,Department of Drama. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/11427/7480en_ZA
dc.identifier.chicagocitationDavids, Nadia. <i>"Inherited memories : performing the archive."</i> Thesis., University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,Department of Drama, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/7480en_ZA
dc.identifier.citationDavids, N. 2007. Inherited memories : performing the archive. University of Cape Town.en_ZA
dc.identifier.ris TY - Thesis / Dissertation AU - Davids, Nadia AB - This thesis explores the way in which words, memories, and images of District Six are mediated and performed in an attempt to memorialised a destroyed urban landscape. It expands the borders of 'performance' to include oral (re)constructions of place by ex-residents, which in turn opens a space for a reflective analysis in which Marianne Hirsch’s psychodynamic theory of ‘postmemory’ is explored through the phrase ‘Children of District Six’. It traces the role and influence of ex-residents in shaping the politics and poetics of the District Six Museum and argues that orality and performance are singularly sympathetic in evoking and remembering the aesthetic, cultural, and political realms of District Six. It then shifts towards an analysis of two creative projects; Magnet Theater's Onnest’bo and the Museum’s Re-Imagining Carnival in which the themes of place, home, loss, exile, resistance, advocacy and restitution rotate around experiences of forced removals in general and District Six in particular. A thematic cord is created between these performance pieces and oral testimonies and their combined mediation of the many archives of District Six. Through an engagement with the performative odysseys and attendant archives of Re-Imagining Carnival and Onnest’bo the thesis examine metaphysical enactments of material loss, engages with tactics of re-construction of place and experience through memory, connects the psychic worlds of memory and performance and suggests an ideological flow between oral history, witnessing, and theatre. It is an exploration underpinned by the question of the role of performance in memorialising national narratives and the potential of creative mobilisations of memory in enacting psychic restitution. Both Onnest’bo and Re-Imagining Carnival are linked to the District Six Museum, and as such the Museum, its methodologies, ethics, ethos, and work with tangible and intangible heritage serve as an essential ideological foundation from which these creative visions emerge. DA - 2007 DB - OpenUCT DP - University of Cape Town LK - https://open.uct.ac.za PB - University of Cape Town PY - 2007 T1 - Inherited memories : performing the archive TI - Inherited memories : performing the archive UR - http://hdl.handle.net/11427/7480 ER - en_ZA
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11427/7480
dc.identifier.vancouvercitationDavids N. Inherited memories : performing the archive. [Thesis]. University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,Department of Drama, 2007 [cited yyyy month dd]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11427/7480en_ZA
dc.language.isoengen_ZA
dc.publisher.departmentDepartment of Dramaen_ZA
dc.publisher.facultyFaculty of Humanitiesen_ZA
dc.publisher.institutionUniversity of Cape Town
dc.subject.otherDramaen_ZA
dc.titleInherited memories : performing the archiveen_ZA
dc.typeDoctoral Thesis
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