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Drama for a New South Africa Seven Plays

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ISBN-10: 0253213266

ISBN-13: 9780253213266

Edition: 2000

Authors: David Graver

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The urgency of the anti-apartheid struggle created a vibrant protest theatre in South Africa. But the single-mindedness of that theatre obscured much of the diversity of South African life. In contrast, post-apartheid plays address a broad variety of social realities and employ a wider range of theatrical styles. This anthology collects the best recent examples of the new styles, subjects, and purposes of theatre in South Africa. In addition to the abiding challenges of social inequity for the black majority, these plays deal with subjects such as Islamic fundamentalism, women's rights, ecology, Afrikaans culture, and the new multi-racial life of the inner city, and they do so in ways that…    
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Book details

List price: $20.00
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Publication date: 1/22/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 240
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.25" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 0.836

DAVID GRAVER earned a Ph.D. in comparative literature from Cornell University in 1987. Since then he has taught drama at Loyola University of Chicago, Stanford University, Columbia University, and the University of Chicago. He is author of The Aesthetics of Disturbance and numerous articles on twentieth-century drama and performance. He has been studying, teaching, and writing on South African drama since 1988. In 1997, he began a law degree at the University of Chicago.

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Sophiatown
Horn of Sorrow
And the Girls in Their Sunday Dresses
Mooi Street Moves
Purdah
Crossing
Ipi Zombi?
Glossary