Overview

This book argues that memory functions as a key element in contemporary South African re-imagining of historical events and in constructing new definitions of national and personal identity. It compares two ways in which memory is embodied: in repertoires of practices, songs, dance, rituals, and in material archives, texts, documents, buildings. -- .

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Hutchison's book is a welcome addition to the scholarship on South African performance, exploring the tensions between the archives of the past and the repertoires of the present in South Africa after 1994., Megan Lewis, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Modern Drama, 20 May 2015 -- .

Hutchison's book is a welcome addition to the scholarship on South African performance, exploring the tensions between the archives of the past and the repertoires of the present in South Africa after 1994. -- Megan Lewis. Modern Drama Hutchison strongly supports her argument throughout the volume by providing exhaustive analyses of linguistic and spatially performed archives. The author succeeds in expressing her ideas with a clear and lucid voice, accompanying the reader throughout all the steps of her argument. For these reasons, I would recommend this book to students and scholars willing to deepen their knowledge of South Africa's performative attempts to deal with and negotiate its memory of the past. -- Francesca Mussi.

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Yvette Hutchison is Associate Professor in the School of Theatre, Performance and Cultural Policy Studies at the University of Warwick, UK

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