Книга: Jessica Lejowa «Auto-ethnography as Performance Practice in an African Context»

Производитель: "LAP Lambert Academic Publishing"

Shifting Uncerstandings of Performance Practice in an African ContextBy critically analysing three pieces of devised performance, Even as I Walk (2008), They Were Silent (2009) and The Wages of Sin (2009), I argue that the concept of performance is not easily defined. Rather, it is an ever-changing phenomenon, which can become a useful platform for dialoguing about deeply personal and necessarily public and political subject matter. I locate myself and the theatre makers I worked with to create the three pieces, in the work by reflecting on and writing about the processes using auto-ethnography as a lens. The context within which I write, and within which my collaborators and I work, is that of our locations in very specific African, moral, cultural, political and creative impulses which we interrogate through the creative processes. Through the writing and reflecting, I arrive at various conclusions, including what I call the methodology of not knowing, the importance of the group... ISBN:9783844389586

Издательство: "LAP Lambert Academic Publishing" (2011)

ISBN: 9783844389586