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Author:   Marc Maufort ,  Jessica Maufort
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   211
Weight:   0.700kg
ISBN:  

9789004414457

ISBN 10:   9004414452
Pages:   346
Publication Date:   14 November 2019
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

  Acknowledgments   Notes on Contributors  1 A Fraught Process: Devising New Stage Idioms for Post-apartheid South Africa   Marc and Jessica Maufort Part 1: Playwrights’ Perspectives  2 On Black and White: Staging South African Identities after Apartheid   Greg Homann  3 Being in Two Places at the Same Time   Craig Higginson  4 Theatre of the Native Tongue   Omphile Molusi  5 Transformation and the Post-apartheid Condition: The Collision of Policy and Imagination in South African Theatre   Mike van Graan Part 2: Dramatic, Theatrical and Performance Reconfigurations  6 Performing Athol Fugard’s Outsider Art in The Road to Mecca and The Painted Rocks at Revolver Creek: Transformative Art Defies Percepticide   Marcia Blumberg  7 Alluring Voices from the Page to the Stage: Literary Characters and the Question of the ‘Real’ in Reza de Wet’s Verleiding   Petrus du Preez  8 From the Stage to the Page: Trauma, Reconciliation and Remembering in Craig Higginson’s Dream of the Dog andThe Dream House   Mathilde Rogez  9 South African Theatre and the Politics of the Improvisatory   Ralph Yarrow  10 The Fault-Lines of Idiom: New Thematic and Stylistic Trends in the Plays of Allan Kolski Horwitz   Vicki Briault Manus  11 Revisiting the Past, Imagining the Future: Aesthetic of Creolization in Post-apartheid South African Drama   Marc Maufort Part 3: Female Playwriting  12 Intimate Exposure: Solo Women Performing in Post-apartheid South Africa   Veronica Baxter  13 Recuperating Historical Narratives of Violence and Dislocation in Rehane Abrahams’ What the Water Gave Me   Jill Planche  14 Female Interventions in Contemporary South African Drama and Performance: An Analysis of Selected Work by Women Artists   Jessica Murray  15 An Unfinished Homecoming: Postmemory, Place and New Practices of Politicisation in the Plays of Nadia Davids and Amy Jephta   Ksenia Robbe Part 4: Creolization: From the Cape to Transnational Vistas  16 ‘Dis Nie Myne Nie, Dis Nie Joune Nie’ or Kramer and Petersen’s Ghoema: Inscribing the Past, Claiming the Present?   Paula Fourie  17 Shakespeare versus Shakespeare: Notes on Theatre-Making from Belgium to South Africa   Chris Thurman  Index of Names and Literary Works

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Marc Maufort, PhD (1986), Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), is Professor of Anglophone literatures at that university. He has authored and (co)-edited several books on English-language drama. He is the current editor of Recherche littéraire/Literary Research. Jessica Maufort holds a PhD (2018) in postcolonial literatures from the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB). She has published essays in Ecozon@: European Journal of Literature, Culture and Environment and AJE: Australasian Journal of Ecocriticism and Cultural Ecology.

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