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Performing Whitely in the postcolony : Afrikaners in South African theatrical and public life / Megan Lewis.

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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xv, 246 pages; 23 cm.

Summary

Megan Lewis is an assistant professor of theatre in the dramaturgy program at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She currently lives and works in the Pioneer Valley of Amherst, Massachusetts. Book jacket.

Series Statement

Studies in theatre history and culture

Uniform Title

Project Muse UPCC books
Studies in theatre history and culture

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Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

committed to retain

Contents

Preface: stakes of performance and race, north and south -- Introduction: whiteness in the global imaginary -- 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.

ISBN

9781609384470
1609384474
9781609384487 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

^^2016007770

OCLC

946463306

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Harvard Library