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Performance and the Afterlives of Injustice (Paperback)
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Performance and the Afterlives of Injustice (Paperback)
Series: Theater: Theory/Text/Performance
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Unresolved pasts tend to return. In the aftermath of
state-perpetrated injustice, a façade of peace can suddenly give
way. In such circumstances, the voices and visions of artists can
help us see what otherwise evades perception. Performance and the
Afterlives of Injustice considers key works by contemporary South
African performing artists Brett Bailey, Gregory Maqoma, Mamela
Nyamza, Robyn Orlin, Jay Pather, and Sello Pesa as well as
choreographer Faustin Linyekula from the Democratic Republic of
Congo. Their performances demonstrate that post-apartheid and
postcolonial framings of change have exceeded their limits. What is
needed are new analytics with greater agility and a capacity to
handle the elliptical returns of history, the resurfacings of
atrocities thought to be past, while also holding history’s
remains in dynamic tension with the promise of a future that is
otherwise. What aesthetic strategies do artists use to activate and
shape live performance’s unique corporeality and sociability as a
medium, its distinctive capacities for expressing and representing
volatile content? How, and how well, do various aesthetic
strategies work? Embodied performance in South Africa has
particular potency because apartheid was so centrally focused on
the body: classifying bodies into racial categories, legislating
where certain bodies could move and which bathrooms and drinking
fountains certain bodies could use, and how different bodies
carried meaning. The majority of artists analyzed here are people
of color, a necessary corrective to the white-dominated nature of
South African performance scholarship. As the artists featured here
imagine new forms, they are helping audiences see the contemporary
moment as it is: an important intervention in a country long
predicated on denial. They are also helping to conjure, anticipate,
and dream a world that is otherwise. The book will be of particular
interest to scholars of African studies, black performance, dance
studies, transitional justice, as well as theater and performance
studies.
General
Imprint: |
The University of Michigan Press
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Series: |
Theater: Theory/Text/Performance |
Release date: |
October 2020 |
Authors: |
Catherine Cole
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Dimensions: |
229 x 152 x 22mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback
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Pages: |
304 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-472-05458-9 |
Categories: |
Books
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LSN: |
0-472-05458-9 |
Barcode: |
9780472054589 |
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