Articulating pain and surviving trauma: interrogating the representations of extreme gender violence in two contemporary South African plays by Lara Foot and Phyllis Klotz.
| dc.contributor.advisor | Loots, Lliane Jennifer. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Mtshali, Nompumelelo. | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2020-11-16T14:20:41Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2020-11-16T14:20:41Z | |
| dc.date.created | 2019 | |
| dc.date.issued | 2019 | |
| dc.description | Masters Degree. University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban. | en_US |
| dc.description.abstract | The high rape statistics in South Africa has launched diverse research enquiries to interrogate extreme gender-based violence particularly child rape and corrective rape. The findings from broad research studies for example by Rachel Jewkes, Hetty Rose-Junius and Loveday Penn Kekana (2005) point to poverty as a cultural legacy of colonialism and power imbalances between genders as some of the most significant symptoms of gender-based violence. Lara Foot and Phyllis Klotz as South African playwrights, directors and activists have used real-life rape cases to create plays that heighten awareness on rape through horrific fictionalised stories. This half-dissertation applies a literary and performative analysis on these plays namely, Tshepang (2005) and Chapter 2 Section 9 (2016), as postcolonial feminist theatrical texts that engage critical scholarly and performance discourse on gender-based violence in South Africa. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://researchspace.ukzn.ac.za/handle/10413/18853 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.subject.other | Gender based violence. | en_US |
| dc.subject.other | Interrogating the Representations. | en_US |
| dc.subject.other | Extreme gender violence. | en_US |
| dc.subject.other | Contemporary South African plays. | en_US |
| dc.subject.other | Theatrical representations. | en_US |
| dc.title | Articulating pain and surviving trauma: interrogating the representations of extreme gender violence in two contemporary South African plays by Lara Foot and Phyllis Klotz. | en_US |
| dc.type | Thesis | en_US |