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Penfold, Tom, Performance art - South Africa. Towards a new public space : performance culture in 1980s South Africa. 2015.

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Title: Towards a new public space : performance culture in 1980s South Africa
Creator: Penfold, Tom
Creator: Performance art - South Africa
Subject: Performance poetry - South Africa
Subject: Qabula, Alfred
Subject: Mbuli, Mzwakhe
Date: 2015
Description: Abstract: Going as far as to discuss political violence and funerals alongside poetry and theatre, this article adopts an inclusive approach to culture and explores the changing nature of performance in 1980s South Africa. Focusing initially on trade unions and worker culture, before widening the discussion, it is shown that those marginalised by apartheid society were able to work at the boundaries of established genres to perform messages of mobilisation that simultaneously created temporarily liberated areas inscribed with new forms of authority and agency. The article considers poetry by Alfred Qabula and Mzwakhe Mbuli; new developments in theatre; and fundamentally political events and argues that each, by blurring the distinction between performer and audience, similarly acted as popular tools of communication. They replaced the literary imaginary of previous decades and created new public space.

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Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10210/217683
Identifier: uj:21670
Identifier: Citation: Penfold, T. 2015. Towards a new public space : performance culture in 1980s South Africa.
Language: English
Rights: ©2015, authors
Type: Article
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