Writing the Elusive Narrative of Soweto-Based Community Theatre, 1984–1994
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چکیده
The focus of the article is on writing history community theatre, which was a popular avenue for artistic expression number township playwrights. During period 1984–1994, there flowering arts in Soweto. Numerous plays were staged, but this has not been documented due to lack record-keeping by playwrights and absence formal theatre structures township-based In contemporary writing, received attention from newspapers, with Gibson Kente, Matsemela Manaka Maishe Maponya being most prominent Because their popularity South Africa esteem international audiences, stature three presents an opportunity see how Soweto may be written. This proposes that memory studies facilitates more comprehensive narrative because it enables melding various sources: newspaper articles, programmes, private archives, information insights interviewees. Halbwachs’s methodology allows discussion theory (memory studies) practice (writing narrative) present evidence contributed development Africa. Without discounting significance (written) history, Halbwachs foregrounds importance memory, resides “people still living,” as key formulating past. pertinent since interviewees sources also help re-examine perceived limitations attached label “community theatre.”
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Literary Studies
سال: 2022
ISSN: ['0256-4718', '1753-5387']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.25159/1753-5387/12201