Theatre from Rhodesia to Zimbabwe : hegemony, identity and a contested postcolony / Samuel Ravengai, Owen Seda, editors.
Ravengai, Samuel.; Seda, Owen.
2021
PN2998.4 .T44 2021eb
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Title Theatre from Rhodesia to Zimbabwe : hegemony, identity and a contested postcolony / Samuel Ravengai, Owen Seda, editors.
ISBN 9783030745943 (electronic bk.)
3030745945 (electronic bk.)
9783030745936
3030745937
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-74594-3
Published Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, 2021.
Copyright ©2021
Language English
Description 1 online resource (xvii, 273 pages : illustrations (black and white))
Item Number 10.1007/978-3-030-74594-3 doi
Call Number PN2998.4 .T44 2021eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 792.096891
Summary The voices that are represented in this collection come from various parts of the world and express the views of practitioners and scholars who have all had first-hand experience working in Zimbabwean theatre from the last days of Rhodesia to Zimbabwe. The collection views the long continuum of developments in local theatre history as a case of the intrusive hegemonies that came with colonial Rhodesia as a conquest society, and localised identities in the form of the persistence of indigenous and syncretic popular forms. With time, all these came together to constitute the makings of a contested post-colony in contemporary theatre practice in Zimbabwe. The primary interest of scholars who are represented here is located at the intersection of political, cultural and performative discourses and the flow of Zimbabwean history. The focus, moreover, is not only on the history of performance cultures in postcolonial Zimbabwe - it extends its critical gaze to include the history of political ideas that gave rise to cultural contestation in the field of theatre and performance.
Note Creating Critical Consciousness via the Rehearsal Process.
Includes index.
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Added Author Ravengai, Samuel.
Seda, Owen.
Series Contemporary performance interactions.
Available in Other Form Theatre from Rhodesia to Zimbabwe.
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Introduction: Contested Forms, Spaces and the Politics of Representation in Zimbabwean Theatre
A Historical Perspective
Part I From Colonial to De-colonial Theatre: Contested forms
Colonial Zimbabwean Theatre, Cultural Production and the Interplay with Rhodesian Power and Discourse
Negotiating Whitehood: Identity and Resistance in Rhodesian Theatre 1950-1980
Transformative Complexity of Found Objects in Devised Zimbabwean Theatre
Amakhosi Theatre Training (1990-2000): An Exercise in Syncretism
Contestation in Postcolonial Drama: Residual and Emergent Consciousness in Zimbabwean Theatre at Independence
NTO and ZACT
Creating Counter-Public Sphere(s): Performance in Zimbabwe Between the Influence of Mugabe and Western NGOs
Part II The Politics of Representation
'I Was Never a White Girl and I Do Not Want to Be a White Girl': Albinism, Youth Theatre and Disability Politics in Contemporary Zimbabwe
Popular Theatre as a Struggle for Identity and Representation in Matabeleland: 1980 to the Present
Harnessing the Whirlwind: Hybridity, memory and crisis in Theatre During Zimbabwe's Operation Murambatsvina
Towards a Democratic Protest Theatre in Zimbabwe: Vhitori Entertainment's Protest Revolutionaries (2012)
Who is Indigenous? Freeing Indigeneity from a Time Warp.

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