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Monarchs, Missionaries and African Intellectuals - African Theatre and the Unmaking of Colonial Marginality (Paperback)
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Monarchs, Missionaries and African Intellectuals - African Theatre and the Unmaking of Colonial Marginality (Paperback)
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Much of the work in the field of African studies still relies on
rigid distinctions of ‘tradition’ and ‘modernity’,
‘collaboration’ and ‘resistance’, ‘indigenous’ and
‘foreign’. This book moves well beyond these frameworks to
probe the complex entanglements of different intellectual
traditions in the South African context, by examining two case
studies. The case studies constitute the core around which is woven
this intriguing story of the development of black theatre in South
Africa in the early years of the century. It also highlights the
dialogue between African and African-American intellectuals, and
the intellectual formation of the early African elite in relation
to colonial authority and how each affected the other in
complicated ways. The first case study centres on Mariannhill
Mission in KwaZulu-Natal. Here the evangelical and pedagogical
drama pioneered by the Rev Bernard Huss, is considered alongside
the work of one of the mission’s most eminent alumni, the poet
and scholar, B.W. Vilakazi. The second moves to Johannesburg and
gives a detailed insight into the working of the Bantu Dramatic
Society and the drama of H.I.E. Dhlomo in relation to the British
Drama League and other white liberal cultural activities.
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