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Performing Whitely in the postcolony : Afrikaners in South African theatrical and public life
- Title
- Performing Whitely in the postcolony : Afrikaners in South African theatrical and public life / Megan Lewis.
- Author
- Lewis, Megan, 1968-
- Publication
- Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, [2016]
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Details
- Description
- xv, 246 pages; 23 cm
- Series Statement
- Studies in theatre history and culture
- Uniform Title
- Studies in theatre history and culture.
- Subject
- 2000-2099
- Theater > South Africa
- Performing arts > South Africa
- Afrikaners in literature
- White people in literature
- Race relations in literature
- Afrikaners > Race identity > South Africa
- White people > Race identity > South Africa
- Afrikaners > Race identity
- Performing arts
- Social conditions
- Theater
- Whites > Race identity
- South Africa > Social conditions > 21st century
- South Africa
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-246) and index.
- Contents
- Preface: stakes of performance and race, north and south -- Introduction -- Laagers of whiteness: Afrikaner ascendency and the staging of a nation -- Rehearsing a white nation: Afrikaner performances of volk identity (1904-2009) -- Hyphens of humanity: whiteness and nostalgia in the work of Deon Opperman -- Queering Afrikanerdom: the performative maneuvers of Pieter-Dirk Uys -- Abject Afrikaner, iconoclast trekker: Peter van Heerden's performance interventions within the laagers of white masculinity -- Vuilgeboosted gangstas and romanties Afrikaner rappers: the zef whiteness of Die Antwoord and Jack Parow -- conclusion.
- Call Number
- Sc E 16-1815
- ISBN
- 9781609384470
- 1609384474
- LCCN
- 2016007770
- OCLC
- 946463306
- Author
- Lewis, Megan, 1968- author.
- Title
- Performing Whitely in the postcolony : Afrikaners in South African theatrical and public life / Megan Lewis.
- Publisher
- Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, [2016]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Studies in theatre history and cultureStudies in theatre history and culture.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-246) and index.
- Chronological Term
- 2000-2099
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 16-1815