Reflections on a body of work/water: re-membering the post-slave female body through performance practice
| dc.contributor.advisor | Stopford, Clare | |
| dc.contributor.advisor | Mtshali, Mbongeni | |
| dc.contributor.author | Abrahams,Rehane | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2022-08-29T15:24:10Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2022-08-29T15:24:10Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2017 | |
| dc.date.updated | 2022-08-29T15:23:51Z | |
| dc.description.abstract | This study attempts to ‘re-member' the post-slave South African female body through personal performance practice. It addresses re-membering both as an embodied activity of Recalling erased memory and as a recuperation of the dis-membered post-slave female body. Through reflecting on two examples of personal performance practice, What the Water Gave Me (2000) and Spice Root (2005), I use my own post-slave body as the locus of Intersection between the private and the political, the biological and the historical. The transmission of cultural memory through performance is traced through Joseph Roach's (1996) ‘surrogation' and Diana Taylor's (2003) ‘Repertoire'. Specifically, I employ a syncretic spirituality and objects of cultural memory to re-member a diasporic narrative continuity and recuperate embodied feminine agency. Gabeba Baderoon's (2014) perspective on the Indian Ocean as site of colonial slavery and cultural memory across diaspora and Raissa De Smet Trumbull's (2010) monograph on ‘Oceanic liquidity' inspire a figuration of the Ocean as an embodied, affective, anti-colonial presence. These modalities also inflect the style of writing in my inquiry, thus privileging the material/maternal, cyclical, leaky and excessive qualities of water a counter-hegemonic practice. | |
| dc.identifier.apacitation | (2017). <i>Reflections on a body of work/water: re-membering the post-slave female body through performance practice</i>. (). ,Faculty of Humanities ,Department of Drama. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/11427/36728 | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.chicagocitation | . <i>"Reflections on a body of work/water: re-membering the post-slave female body through performance practice."</i> ., ,Faculty of Humanities ,Department of Drama, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/36728 | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.citation | 2017. Reflections on a body of work/water: re-membering the post-slave female body through performance practice. . ,Faculty of Humanities ,Department of Drama. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/36728 | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.ris | TY - Master Thesis AU - Abrahams,Rehane AB - This study attempts to ‘re-member' the post-slave South African female body through personal performance practice. It addresses re-membering both as an embodied activity of Recalling erased memory and as a recuperation of the dis-membered post-slave female body. Through reflecting on two examples of personal performance practice, What the Water Gave Me (2000) and Spice Root (2005), I use my own post-slave body as the locus of Intersection between the private and the political, the biological and the historical. The transmission of cultural memory through performance is traced through Joseph Roach's (1996) ‘surrogation' and Diana Taylor's (2003) ‘Repertoire'. Specifically, I employ a syncretic spirituality and objects of cultural memory to re-member a diasporic narrative continuity and recuperate embodied feminine agency. Gabeba Baderoon's (2014) perspective on the Indian Ocean as site of colonial slavery and cultural memory across diaspora and Raissa De Smet Trumbull's (2010) monograph on ‘Oceanic liquidity' inspire a figuration of the Ocean as an embodied, affective, anti-colonial presence. These modalities also inflect the style of writing in my inquiry, thus privileging the material/maternal, cyclical, leaky and excessive qualities of water a counter-hegemonic practice. DA - 2017 DB - OpenUCT DP - University of Cape Town KW - theatre and performance LK - https://open.uct.ac.za PY - 2017 T1 - Reflections on a body of work/water: re-membering the post-slave female body through performance practice TI - Reflections on a body of work/water: re-membering the post-slave female body through performance practice UR - http://hdl.handle.net/11427/36728 ER - | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11427/36728 | |
| dc.identifier.vancouvercitation | . Reflections on a body of work/water: re-membering the post-slave female body through performance practice. []. ,Faculty of Humanities ,Department of Drama, 2017 [cited yyyy month dd]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11427/36728 | en_ZA |
| dc.language.rfc3066 | eng | |
| dc.publisher.department | Department of Drama | |
| dc.publisher.faculty | Faculty of Humanities | |
| dc.subject | theatre and performance | |
| dc.title | Reflections on a body of work/water: re-membering the post-slave female body through performance practice | |
| dc.type | Master Thesis | |
| dc.type.qualificationlevel | Masters | |
| dc.type.qualificationlevel | MA |