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  title info:
    title: Performance and the afterlives of injustice
  name:
    name part: Cole, Catherine M.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Michigan Publishing (University of Michigan)
    role:
      role term: publisher.
  type of resource: text
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: miu
    date issued: 2020
    copyright date: 2020
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (328 pages).
  abstract: 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, trans…
  note: Catherine M. Cole
  note: Includes bibliographical references
  subject:
    geographic code: f-sa---
  subject:
    topic: Performing arts
    geographic: South Africa
    topic: History and criticism
  subject:
    topic: Entertainers
    geographic: South Africa
    topic: History and criticism
  subject:
    topic: Artists, Black
    geographic: South Africa
    topic: History and criticism
  subject:
    topic: Postcolonialism
    geographic: South Africa
  subject:
    geographic: South Africa
    topic: Social conditions
  classification: PN1589.S6
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Theater: Theory/Text/Performance
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Theater--theory/text/performance
  identifier: 9780472074587
  identifier: 047207458X
  identifier: 9780472054589
  identifier: 0472054589
  identifier: 9780472127016
  identifier: 0472127012
  identifier: http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login
  record info:
    record content source: EYM
    record creation date: 200313
    record change date: 20221129150700.2
    record identifier: in00004606133
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng