Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item:
https://cris.library.msu.ac.zw//handle/11408/960
Full metadata record
DC Field | Value | Language |
---|---|---|
dc.contributor.author | Rwafa, Urther | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2016-04-22T10:23:33Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2016-04-22T10:23:33Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2009 | - |
dc.identifier.issn | 0256-6060 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11408/960 | - |
dc.description.abstract | During the 1970s, Augusto Baol, a Brazilian scholar laid out theoretical and practical foundation to what he called: Theatre of the oppressed’ (1979). Rejecting the Aristotelian poetics of despair and bourgeois ‘illusionism’, Baol evolved and experimented with interrogative theatre that focused on performer-spectator solidarity. This article explores some tenets of the genre of the theatre of the oppressed to tease out philosophical and ideological arguments that underpin the conception and development of theatre practiced by the oppressed in Zimbabwe. It is argued that while the dominant classes in Zimbabwe may wish to narrow and univocalize meaning through their censorship of cultural works of art, symbolic instabilities within the language of theatre has the capacity to subvert preferred readings that work to prevent realisation of alternative histories and memories. The article will exemplify the nature and manifestations of state restrictions on theatre of the oppressed by making special reference to the dialectics of the play ‘Workshop Negative’ written and produced by Cont Mhlanga in 1987. | en_US |
dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
dc.publisher | Unisa Press | en_US |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | Unisa Latin American Report;Vol. 1, no. 1 | - |
dc.subject | Augusto Baol | en_US |
dc.subject | Theatre of the oppressed | en_US |
dc.subject | Zimbabwe, | en_US |
dc.title | A critique of Augusto Baol’s ‘ Theater of the Oppressed within the context of Post Independent Zimbabwe | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |
item.openairecristype | http://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_18cf | - |
item.languageiso639-1 | en | - |
item.openairetype | Article | - |
item.grantfulltext | open | - |
item.fulltext | With Fulltext | - |
item.cerifentitytype | Publications | - |
Appears in Collections: | Research Papers |
Files in This Item:
File | Description | Size | Format | |
---|---|---|---|---|
A critique of Augusto.pdf | 463.44 kB | Adobe PDF | ![]() View/Open |
Page view(s)
18
checked on Aug 27, 2024
Download(s)
2
checked on Aug 27, 2024
Google ScholarTM
Check
Items in MSUIR are protected by copyright, with all rights reserved, unless otherwise indicated.