Theatre from Rhodesia to Zimbabwe : hegemony, identity and a contested postcolony /: hegemony, identity and a contested postcolony. (2021)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Samuel Ravengai, Owen Seda.
• Editors: Ravengai, Samuel; Seda, Owen
• Contents: 1. ​Introduction; Samuel Ravengai and Owen Seda.- 2. Chapter 1: Colonial Zimbabwean Theatre, Cultural Production and the Interplay with Rhodesian Power and Discourse; Samuel Ravengai.- 3. Chapter 2: Negotiating Whitehood: Identity and Resistance in Rhodesian Theatre 1950-1980; Kelvin Chikonzo and Samuel Ravengai.- 4. Chapter 3: Transformative Complexity of Found Objects in Devised Zimbabwean Theatre; Tafadzwa Mlenga and Nehemiah Chivandikwa.- 5. Chapter 4: Amakhosi Theatre Training (1990-2000): An Exercise in Syncretism; Nkululeko Sibanda and Julia Yule.- 6. Chapter 5: Contestation in Post-Colonial Drama – Residual and Emergent Consciousness in Zimbabwean Theatre at Independence: NTO and ZACT; Owen Seda.- 7. Chapter 6: Creating Counter-Public Sphere(s): Performance in Zimbabwe between the Influence of Mugabe and Western NGOs; Julius Heinicke.- 8. Chapter 7: 'I was never a white girl and I do not want to be a white girl': Albinism, Youth Theatre and Disability Politics in Contemporary Zimbabwe; Chiedza Chinhanu, Nehemiah Chivandikwa and Owen Seda.- 9. Chapter 8: Popular Theatre as a Struggle for Identity and Representation in Matabeleland: 1980 to the Present; Mandlenkosi Mpofu, Cletus Moyo and Nkululeko Sibanda.- 10. Chapter 9: Harnessing the Whirlwind: Hybridity, Memory, and Crisis in Theatre during Zimbabwe's Operation Murambatsvina; Joy L Wrolson.- 11. Chapter 10: Towards a Democratic Protest Theatre in Zimbabwe: Vhitori Entertainment's Protest Revolutionaries (2012); Kelvin Chikonzo.- 12. Chapter 11: Who is Indigenous? Freeing Indigeneity from a Time Warp; Pedzisai Maedza.
• Publisher Details: Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2021
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white)
• Subjects: 792.096891; Theater -- Zimbabwe -- History; Zimbabwe -- Social life and customs; Zimbabwe -- History -- 1965-1980
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783030745943
• Related ISBNs: 9783030745936
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