Research Catalog

Title

Performing migrancy and mobility in Africa : cape of flows / edited by Mark Fleishman.

Publication

Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.

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Additional Authors

Fleishman, Mark, 1963-

Description

xv, 232 pages : illustrations; 23 cm.

Summary

"Performing Migrancy and Mobility in Africa focuses on a body of performance work, the work of Magnet Theatre in particular but also work by other artists in Cape Town and other parts of the continent or the world, that engages with the Cape as a real or imagined node in a complex system of migration and mobility. Located at the foot of the African continent, lodged between two oceans at the intersection of many of the earth's major shipping lanes, Cape Town is a stage for a powerful mixing of cultures and peoples and has been an important node in a network of flows, circuits of movement and exchange. The performance works studied here attempt to get to grips with what it feels like to be on the move and in the spaces in-between that characterises the lives, now and for centuries before, of multiple peoples who move around and pass through places like the Cape. The contributors are a broad range of mostly African authors from various parts of the continent and as such the book offers an insight into new thinking and new approaches from an emerging and important location. "--

Series Statement

Studies in international performance

Uniform Title

Studies in international performance.

Subject

• Magnet Theatre > History
• Theater > South Africa > Cape Town > History
• Theater and society > South Africa > Cape Town > History
• Theater > Political aspects > History. > South Africa
• Black theater > South Africa > History
• Black people in the performing arts > South Africa > History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

1. Introduction; Mark Fleishman -- 2. Dramaturgies of Displacement in the Magnet Theatre Migration Project; Mark Fleishman -- 3. 'Peel the Wound'- Cape Town as Passage, Threshold, and Dead-End: Performing the Everyday Traumas of Mobility and Dislocation; Miki Flockemann -- 4. Creating Communitas: The Theatre of Mandla Mbothwe; Mandla Mbothwe and Hazel Barnes -- 5. Embodiment, Mobility and the Moment of Encounter in Jonathan Nkala's The Crossing; Samuel Ravengai -- 6. (Re)-membering the Cape and the Performance of Belonging(s); Pedzisai Maedza -- 7. Uhambo: Pieces of a Dream -- Waiting in the Ambiguity of Liminality; Sara Matchett and Awino Okech -- 8. Mobility, Migration and 'Migritude' in Afrocartography: Traces of Places and All Points in Between; Mwenya Kabwe -- Mamma Africa: A Theatre of Inclusion, Hope(lessness) and Protest; Shannon Elizabeth Hughes -- 9. On Familiar Roads: The Fluidity of Cape Coloured Experiences and Expressions of Migration and Reclamation in the Performances of the Kaapse Klopse in Cape Town; Amy Jephta -- 10. Tall Horse, Tall Stories ; Jane Taylor -- 11. Playtext: The Life and Work of Petrovic Petar; Sanjin Muftic -- Works Cited -- Index.

Call Number

Sc D 15-917

ISBN

• 9781137379337
• 1137379332

LCCN

2014029177

OCLC

889426290

Title

Performing migrancy and mobility in Africa : cape of flows / edited by Mark Fleishman.

Publisher

Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Studies in international performance

Studies in international performance.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Fleishman, Mark, 1963- editor.

Research Call Number

Sc D 15-917