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Sounding the body's meridian : signifying community and "the body national" in post-apartheid South African theatre.

dc.contributor.advisorBaxter, Veronica.
dc.contributor.authorMtshali, Mbongeni N.
dc.date.accessioned2010-08-31T14:17:50Z
dc.date.available2010-08-31T14:17:50Z
dc.date.created2009
dc.date.issued2009
dc.descriptionThesis (M.A.) - University of KwaZulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg, 2009.en_US
dc.description.abstractSounding the Body’s Meridian examines the ways in which notions of belonging are constructed through the display of bodies in performance, specifically the registers of private and public body that have been revealed in the theatre‟s attempts to locate a post-liberation notion of South African-ness in historical narrative. The author investigates various ideas of the imagined community constructed in postliberation performances of South African history as a form of embodied historical-social intervention. This investigation is undertaken with specific reference to claims that are made of South African identity in terms of its public culture, especially the inscription of nationalist ideology as a performative act that operates both upon and through the „citizen‟ bodies that it mediates. The study pursues a notion of the body so mediated, and (perceived) essential “characteristics” that describe its claims to authority and “authenticity”: the “meridian” or line of essential energy that activates its power to signify on behalf of other bodies like it in the debate and transaction of social values.
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10413/781
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.subjectHuman body in the performing arts.en_US
dc.subjectTheatre--South Africa--History--20th century.en_US
dc.subjectTheatre and state--South Africa.en_US
dc.subjectTheses--Drama and performance studies.en_US
dc.titleSounding the body's meridian : signifying community and "the body national" in post-apartheid South African theatre.en_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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