Remembering in the postcolony : refiguring the past with theatre

This thesis is a study of remembering in the postcolony. A remembering that is less about the need to forestall forgetting than it is about a putting back together of the fractured body. It suggests that while the postcolony demands remembering, its particularities render remembering highly problematic if not impossible. It argues that performance and a particular piece of dramaturgy is one way of intervening in this process of remembering; one way of making the silent dead speak, because performance is connected to both time and silence in key ways.

Grantor dc:publisher.institution

Department of Drama

Year dc:date.issued

2012

Author dc:creator

• Fleishman, Mark

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Worden, Nigel

Language dc:language.iso

eng

Handle dc:identifier.uri

http://hdl.handle.net/11427/10476

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/10476