'Knowing Performance: Performance as Knowledge Paradigm for Africa'

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2009

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http://hdl.handle.net/11427/21214
 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10137548.2009.9687905
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Fleishman, Mark
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South African Theatre Journal

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http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rthj20/current
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Taylor & Francis

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University of Cape Town

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Department of Drama
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Faculty of Humanities
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Abstract
This article expands Chantal Mouffe's critique of the 'post-political' as a space in which the partisan model of politics has been overcome and there is no possibility of alternatives, to the realm of knowledge production. It questions the prevalent position that there are no alternatives to orthodox knowledge paradigms and suggests the possibility that performance constitutes an alternative way of knowing - both in respect of its representations but also with regard to its embodied practice. It suggests that performance as a knowledge paradigm is particularly appropriate to Africa and argues that it capitalises on our historical legacies and our particular niche advantage in the humanities.
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Fleishman, M. (2009). Knowing performance: performance as knowledge paradigm for Africa. SATJ: South African Theatre Journal, 23, 116-136.

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