| Description |
1 online resource (282 pages) |
| Contents |
Identities fixed and fluid -- Frames and freedom -- Individuality as performance -- Self and society -- Drama and transformation -- Theatre and play -- Rhizomatic identities -- White men in exile : masculine subject-positions -- Defining masculinity -- Separation and sexual maturity in The captain's tiger -- Outright male chauvinism in A man out of the country -- Language and land in Sorrows and rejoicings -- Sexuality as healing in The bells of Amersfoort -- Post anti-Apartheid theatre -- Performing the TRC : Ubu and the Truth Commission -- Defining nationalisms -- Fashionably ethnic : individuality and heritage in Happy natives -- Ethnicity and nationalism -- Defining syncretism -- Syncretic theatre in South Africa -- The dionysian theatre of Brett Bailey -- Fear of the hybrid in the plays of Reza de Wet -- Situating syncretism within the postmodern -- Racial constituencies -- Parodies of race in Inter-racial -- Over the rainbow? -- Changing the body/physical theatres -- Accepting paradox : learning to let go |
| Summary |
Experiments in Freedom examines ways in which identities have been represented in recent South African play texts. It examines descriptions of identity from various philosophical, psychological and anthropological perspectives and elaborates ways in which drama is uniquely suited to represent - as well as to effect - transformations of identity. In exploring the fraught terrain of identity studies, the book discusses a selection of published play texts in terms of four discourses of identit .. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-253) |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
South African drama (English) -- History and criticism
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Identity (Philosophical concept) in literature.
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DRAMA -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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Identity (Philosophical concept) in literature
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South African drama (English)
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781443816113 |
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1443816116 |
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1443814253 |
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9781443814256 |
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