Women S Activist Theatre In Jamaica And South Africa

Author : Nicosia M. Shakes
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2023-08-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780252054754

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Women's Activist Theatre in Jamaica and South Africa by Nicosia M. Shakes Pdf

Theater is an essential theoretical and practical site for forging Black radical thought, Africana feminisms, and womanism. Nicosia M. Shakes draws on ethnographic research in Jamaica and South Africa to analyze the vital relationship between activism and theater production. Concentrating on four performance events, Shakes situates the work of theater groups and projects within a trajectory of women-led social justice movements established in Jamaica, South Africa, and globally from the early 2000s to the present. Her analysis reveals movements driven by Black women’s artistic, intellectual, and organizational labor and focused on issues that range from sexual violence to reproductive justice to the spatial manifestations of racial, gender, and economic oppression. Shakes shows how theater’s political and pedagogical roles become entangled with histories and geographies of oppression and resistance; the identities and connections created by movements of people in the context of colonial and settler colonial histories; and ideas of womanism and feminism.

Author : Yana Meerzon,S.E Wilmer
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 768 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2023-09-02
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9783031201967

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The Palgrave Handbook of Theatre and Migration by Yana Meerzon,S.E Wilmer Pdf

The Palgrave Handbook of Theatre and Migration provides a wide survey of theatre and performance practices related to the experience of global movements, both in historical and contemporary contexts. Given the largest number of people ever (over one hundred million) suffering from forced displacement today, much of the book centres around the topic of refuge and exile and the role of theatre in addressing these issues. The book is structured in six sections, the first of which is dedicated to the major theoretical concepts related to the field of theatre and migration including exile, refuge, displacement, asylum seeking, colonialism, human rights, globalization, and nomadism. The subsequent sections are devoted to several dozen case studies across various geographies and time periods that highlight, describe and analyse different theatre practices related to migration. The volume serves as a prestigious reference work to help theatre practitioners, students, scholars, and educators navigate the complex field of theatre and migration.

Author : Bev Orton
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2018-10-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781787547162

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Women, Activism and Apartheid South Africa by Bev Orton Pdf

This book investigates women’s political activism and conflict in the struggle against apartheid in South Africa, using play texts, alongside interviews with female playwrights and women who worked within the theatre, to examine issues around domestic violence, racial abuse and women in detention without trial.

Author : Martin Banham,James Morel Gibbs,James Gibbs,Femi Osofisan
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : African drama
ISBN : 0253215390

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African Theatre by Martin Banham,James Morel Gibbs,James Gibbs,Femi Osofisan Pdf

The contributions to this volume in the African Theatre series make clear that the role of women in the theatre across the continent has changed as control is mainly held by literate elites and women's traditional standing has been lost to men.

Author : Ethel Tungohan
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2023-08-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780252054785

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Care Activism by Ethel Tungohan Pdf

Care activism challenges the stereotype of downtrodden migrant caregivers by showing that care workers have distinct ways of caring for themselves, for each other, and for the larger transnational community of care workers and their families. Ethel Tungohan illuminates how the goals and desires of migrant care worker activists goes beyond political considerations like policy changes and overturning power structures. Through practices of subversive friendships and being there for each other, care activism acts as an extension of the daily work that caregivers do, oftentimes also instilling practices of resistance and critical hope among care workers. At the same time, the communities created by care activism help migrant caregivers survive and even thrive in the face of arduous working and living conditions and the pains surrounding family separation. As Tungohan shows, care activism also unifies caregivers to resist society’s legal and economic devaluations of care and domestic work by reaffirming a belief that they, and what they do, are important and necessary.

Author : Lizbeth Goodman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 111 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2005-06-27
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781135293536

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Wom Pol Perf S/Afr Thtre by Lizbeth Goodman Pdf

Part three of a three texts compiled during the years of change in South Africa, charts the impact of Apartheid and the cultural boycott on performance, and examining the role of women in theatre. Part three focuses on gender and sexuality and features the text of "So What's New".

Author : Francisca de Haan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780415535755

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Women's Activism by Francisca de Haan Pdf

Women's Activism brings together twelve innovative contributions from feminist historians from around the world. They look at how women have always found ways to challenge or fight inequalities and hierarchies as individuals, in international women's organizations, as political leaders, and in global forums such as the United Nations. This book addresses women's internationalism and struggle for their rights in the international arena; it deals with racism and colonialism in Australia, India and Europe; women's movements and political activism in South Africa, Eastern Bengal (Bangladesh), the United Kingdom, Japan and France.

Author : Kathy Perkins
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 585 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2006-01-16
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781134673575

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Black South African Women by Kathy Perkins Pdf

This is the first anthology to focus exclusively on the lives of Black South African women. This collection represents the work of both female and male writers, including national and international award-winning playwrights. The collection includes six full-length and four one-act plays, as well as interviews with the writers, who candidly discuss the theatrical and political situation in the new South Africa. Written before and after apartheid, the plays present varying approaches and theatrical styles from solo performances to collective creations. The plays dramatise issues as diverse as: * women's rights * displacement from home * violence against women * the struggle to keep families together * racial identity * education in the old and new South Africa * and health care.

Author : Hannah Evelyn Britton,Jennifer Natalie Fish,Sheila Meintjes
Publisher : University of Kwazulu Natal Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015080901567

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Women's Activism in South Africa by Hannah Evelyn Britton,Jennifer Natalie Fish,Sheila Meintjes Pdf

Women's Activism in South Africa provides the most comprehensive collection of women's experiences within civil society since the 1994 transition. This book captures South African women's stories of collective activism and social change at a crucial point for the future of democracy in the country, if not the continent. Pulling together the voices of activists and scholars, South Africa's path to democracy and the assurance of gender rights emerge as a complex journey of both successes and challenges. The collection elucidates a new form of pragmatic feminism, building upon the elasticity between the state and civil society. What the cases demonstrate is that while the state itself may not be a panacea, it still represents a key source of power and the primary locus of vital resources, including the rights of citizenship, access to basic needs, and the promise of protection from gender-based violence - all central to women's particular needs in South Africa.

Author : Olga Barrios
Publisher : Universitat de València
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9788437070223

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The Black Theatre Movement in the United States and in South Africa by Olga Barrios Pdf

El creixement dels moviments sociopolítics entre els anys seixanta i noranta als Estats Units i a Sud-àfrica va establir els ferms fonaments sobre els quals, amb una força i ímpetu sense precedents, es va forjar el teatre negre d?aquests anys. Forma i contingut van sorgir a l?una del compromís polític i artístic adoptat per aquests artistes contra l?imperialisme, el colonialisme i el racisme occidentals. Per primera vegada en la història, el teatre negre dels Estats Units i de Sud-àfrica analitzava i valorava les arrels negres per a poder il·luminar la recerca d?un futur de llibertat. No obstant això, el context sociopolític i les circumstàncies específiques de cada país han generat igualment els trets distintius del teatre afronord-americà i negre sud-africà (incloses les diferències de gènere) manifestos en ramificacions artístiques totalment heterogènies i úniques.

Author : Balghis Badri,Aili Mari Tripp
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2017-02-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781783609109

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Women's Activism in Africa by Balghis Badri,Aili Mari Tripp Pdf

Throughout Africa, growing numbers of women are coming together and making their voices heard, mobilising around causes ranging from democracy and land rights to campaigns against domestic violence. In Tanzania and Tunisia, women have made major gains in their struggle for equal political rights, and in Sierra Leone and Liberia women have been at the forefront of efforts to promote peace and reconciliation. While some of these movements have been influenced by international feminism and external donors, increasingly it is African women who are shaping the global struggle for women's rights. Bringing together African authors who themselves are part of the activist groups, this collection represents the only comprehensive and up-to-date overview of women's movements in contemporary Africa. Drawing on case studies and fresh empirical material from across the continent, the authors challenge the prevailing assumption that notions of women's rights have trickled down from the global north to the south, showing instead that these movements have been shaped by above all the unique experiences and concerns of the local women involved.

Author : Kathy A. Perkins
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780252075735

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African Women Playwrights by Kathy A. Perkins Pdf

For the first time, a distinctive collection of plays by African women published in English

Author : Goodman L
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 74 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2005-08-08
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781135298784

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Wom Pol Perf S/Afr Thre by Goodman L Pdf

First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Lizbeth Goodman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-25
Category : Theater
ISBN : OCLC:1109341171

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Women, Politics and Performance in South African Theatre Today by Lizbeth Goodman Pdf

Author : Elizabeth Gunner
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Drama
ISBN : 1868142140

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Politics and Performance by Elizabeth Gunner Pdf

This volume is a collection of essays that explore aspects of popular culture in South Africa, Zimbabwe and Zambia. These writings examine such topics as the degree of state control over theatre, the interaction - or lack of it - between high and popular culture, the struggle to define meaningful cultural forms in the wake of a dominating and exclusive colonial culture and the contribution of women. What emerges is a strong sense of regional concerns shared by the Southern African cultures under discussion, the contributors also give voice to crucial differences and debates on the nature of contemporary theatre and performance and the links with popular culture, politics and nation.