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Hutchison, Yvette (2018) Aesthetics of South African women’s embodied activism : staging complicity. Contemporary Theatre Review, 28 (3). pp. 355-366. doi:10.1080/10486801.2018.1476350
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/10486801.2018.1476350
Abstract
I begin by contextualising South African women practitioners in South Africa, and this moment in feminist practice. During apartheid, Temple Hauptfleisch argues, ‘most ... women operated mainly in the private and commercial world, for ... the state-funded theatre organizations have hardly ever allowed women into prominent positions of power. Thus, these women were used, their creativity tapped—but their control of the system was limited.’ To some extent, this situation occurred because theatre was perceived as a public or political space in which generally men spoke and protested apartheid, which took precedence against other issues like gender. The plays of this period tended to explore male experiences of apartheid in mines, gangs or prison, with women being represented in absentia, through male memory or fantasy narratives. Very few South African women playwrights were published during apartheid, with Fatima Dike and Gçina Mhlope being two rare exceptions. Miki Flockemann argues that, ‘[w]hen women are thus represented in their absence, what is replicated is a set of female “types” and stereotypes.’
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||
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| Subjects: | D History General and Old World > DT Africa H Social Sciences > HQ The family. Marriage. Woman |
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Arts > Theatre, Performance and Cultural Policy Studies | ||||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Feminism -- South Africa, Apartheid -- South Africa | ||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Contemporary Theatre Review | ||||||
| Publisher: | Routledge | ||||||
| ISSN: | 1048-6801 | ||||||
| Official Date: | 10 October 2018 | ||||||
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| Date of first compliant deposit: | 12 February 2018 | ||||||
| Volume: | 28 | ||||||
| Number: | 3 | ||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 355-366 | ||||||
| DOI: | 10.1080/10486801.2018.1476350 | ||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
| Publisher Statement: | “This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Contemporary Theatre Review on 10/10/2018, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/10486801.2018.1476350 | ||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||
| Description: | Special Issue of The Contemporary Theatre Review on Feminisms in Theatre and Performance |
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