{"product_id":"9781350551381","title":"Harm and Repair in Contemporary South African Performance Resisting Injustice","description":"\u003ch3\u003eMethuen Drama Agitations: Text, Politics and Performances\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch1\u003eHarm and Repair in Contemporary South African Performance\u003c\/h1\u003e\u003ch2\u003eResisting Injustice\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAylwyn Walsh | William C. Boles | Anja Hartl\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cb\u003ePerforming Arts \/ Theater \/ History \u0026amp; Criticism\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThirty years after a largely peaceful transition to democracy in South Africa, how is contemporary performance questioning a narrative of harm and repair?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe book considers contemporary South African performance and how justice is enacted, digested or rejected on stage. It is an account that moves beyond the Truth \u0026amp; Reconciliation Commission, to explore how women and queer artists stage diverse claims to human dignity, anticipating horizons of freedom, and in so doing, resist the fundamental injustices that persist. Grounded in a queer and feminist methodology forged in Black Study, it offers new understandings of the ways performance and resistance can create openings of refusal.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWalsh outlines the 'national mythos of harm \u0026amp; repair' – a logic that claims discursive repair of the past, while present-day state violence, gender-based violence and economic oppression keeps the majority of South Africans in dire circumstances. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAgainst this backdrop, the chapters cover a range of examples of contemporary performance of different scales that resist this narrative and which confront ongoing injustices. Starting with the monumental level construction of the Constitution Hill which sets the ground for sites of memorialisation, she moves on to the work of individual women and queer artists (Mary Sibande) and performance forms ranging from mainstream theatre (Empatheatre, Koleka Putuma, Nadia Davids) through to the festival circuit (Mamela Nyamza, Mojisola Adebayo) and activist performance interventions (Qondiswa James; Sibongile Mngoma). The artists' core tactics are Remembering, Revisiting, Resisting, Refusing, Redressing, Restituting, Revolting.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eAylwyn Walsh\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of Performance and Social Change in the School of Performance and Cultural Industries at the University of Leeds, UK. She is a scholar-artist-activist working in arts in criminal justice, arts and mental health, and abolitionist organising as well as in community settings in South Africa and the UK. Books include \u003ci\u003ePrison Cultures: Performance, Resistance, Desire\u003c\/i\u003e (2019) and the co-edited \u003ci\u003eRemapping Crisis: A Guide to Athens\u003c\/i\u003e (2014).\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublication Date: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e07 January 2027\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eBloomsbury Academic\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eImprint: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eMethuen Drama\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eISBN-13: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e9781350551381\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eFormat: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eHardback\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePage Count: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e256\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eWeight (oz): \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e16.0\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Academic","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52227881500812,"sku":"9781350551381","price":103.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/9545\/1788\/files\/getimage_52715154-a267-4f8e-8062-1c42a4704e0e.jpg?v=1786502354","url":"https:\/\/lateknightbooks.com\/products\/9781350551381","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}