Cape Town s Magnet Theatre has been a force in South African theater for three decades, a crucial space for theater, education, performance, and community throughout a turbulent period in South African history. Offering a dialogue between internal and external perspectives, as well as perspectives from performers, artists, and scholars, this book analyzes Magnet s many productions and presents a rich compendium of the work of one of the most vital physical theater companies in Africa."
Cape Town s Magnet Theatre has been a force in South African theater for three decades, a crucial space for theater, education, performance, and commu...
What does it mean to perform whiteness in the postcolonial era? To answer this question crucial for understanding the changing meanings of race in the twenty-first century Megan Lewis examines the ways that members of South Africa s Afrikaner minority have performed themselves into, around, and out of power from the colonial period to the postcolony. The nation s first European settlers and in the twentieth century the architects of apartheid, since 1994 Afrikaners have been citizens of a multicultural, multilingual democracy. How have they enacted their whiteness in the past, and how...
What does it mean to perform whiteness in the postcolonial era? To answer this question crucial for understanding the changing meanings of race...