Performing whitely in the postcolony : Afrikaners in South African theatrical and public life /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lewis, Megan, 1968- (Author)
Corporate Author: JSTOR (Organization)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, [2016]
Series:Studies in theatre history and culture
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Table of Contents:
  • Preface: stakes of performance and race, north and south
  • Introduction: whiteness in the global imaginary
  • Laagers of whiteness: Afrikaner ascendency and the staging of a nation
  • Rehearsing a white nation: Afrikaner performances of volk identity (1904-2009)
  • Hyphens of humanity: whiteness and nostalgia in the work of Deon Opperman
  • Queering Afrikanerdom: the performative maneuvers of Pieter-Dirk Uys
  • Abject Afrikaner, iconoclast trekker: Peter van Heerden's performance interventions within the laagers of white masculinity
  • Vuilgeboosted gangstas and romanties Afrikaner rappers: the zef whiteness of Die Antwoord and Jack Parow
  • conclusion.