Performing Whitely in the postcolony : Afrikaners in South African theatrical and public life / Megan Lewis.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lewis, Megan, 1968- author.

Series:

Studies in theatre history and culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Theater--South Africa.

Theater.

Performing arts--South Africa.

Performing arts.

Afrikaners in literature.

White people in literature.

Race relations in literature.

Afrikaners--Race identity--South Africa.

Afrikaners.

White people--Race identity--South Africa.

White people.

Social conditions.

White people--Race identity.

Afrikaners--Race identity.

South Africa--Social conditions--21st century.

South Africa.

Physical Description:

xv, 246 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, [2016]

Summary:

Megan Lewis is an assistant professor of theatre in the dramaturgy program at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She currently lives and works in the Pioneer Valley of Amherst, Massachusetts. Book jacket.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781609384470

1609384474

OCLC:

946463306