Performance Trends in Postliberation Zimbabwe

Practices, Projections and Trajectories

Nkululeko Sibanda (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

239 Seiten

2023 | Unabridged edition
Cambridge Scholars Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-5275-9447-0 (ISBN)

Infos

This collection of essays documents, conceptualises and theorises the ways in which Zimbabwean, in particular, and African practitioners, in general, creatively work and perform in contemporary Africa. It serves to consolidate the ways in which Zimbabwean and African performance is made and understood by Zimbabwean practitioners and theorists. The book examines this emergent, dynamic performance movement which transforms performances into acts of reflection, engagement, and/or discussion between the performer and spectator through various creative performative avenues, such as interjections, call and response, singing, clapping and use of communally identifiable everyday objects in design, which affirm and fuse the actors and spectators together. Finally, this book exposes the dominant exclusivity and Anglocentrism in critical pedagogies of performance in Zimbabwe through problematizing the "taken-for-grantedness" of the accepted ways in which performance and theory have been conceptualised.

Autor

Nkululeko Sibanda holds a PhD in Drama and Performance Studies from the University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. His research seeks to destabilise the assumed primacy of Western epistemological and ontological modern structures and strictures of visual language, knowledge, and semiotic models, and explores the politics of cultural production within African performance practice.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheinungsdatum: 03.04.2023
• Verlagsort: Newcastle upon Tyne
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 148 x 212 mm
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Klassik / Oper / Musical
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften
• ISBN-10: 1-5275-9447-5 / 1527594475
• ISBN-13: 978-1-5275-9447-0 / 9781527594470
• Zustand: Neuware