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Aesthetics of South African women’s embodied activism : staging complicity

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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 ISSN 1048-6801.

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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
Subjects: D History General and Old World > DT Africa
H Social Sciences > HQ The family. Marriage. Woman
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
Dates:
DateEvent
10 October 2018Published
6 February 2018Accepted
Volume: 28
Number: 3
Page Range: pp. 355-366
DOI: 10.1080/10486801.2018.1476350
Status: Peer Reviewed
Publication Status: Published
Reuse Statement (publisher, data, author rights): “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
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Special Issue of The Contemporary Theatre Review on Feminisms in Theatre and Performance

Date of first compliant deposit: 12 February 2018
Date of first compliant Open Access: 10 April 2020
RIOXX Funder/Project Grant:
Project/Grant IDRIOXX Funder NameFunder ID
AH/M008096/1[AHRC] Arts and Humanities Research Councilhttp://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100000267
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