Experiments in Freedom: Explorations of Identity in New South African Drama - Hardcover

Anton Krueger

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1443814253 ISBN 13: 9781443814256

Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2010

Synopsis

Experiments in Freedom examines ways in which identities have been represented in recent South African play texts published in English. It begins by exploring descriptions of identity from various philosophical, psychological and anthropological perspectives and elaborates ways in which drama is uniquely suited to represent―as well as to effect―transformations of identity. In exploring the fraught terrain of identity studies, the book examines a selection of play texts in terms of five different discourse of identity―gender, nationalism, ethnicity, syncretism and race. Instead of building a sustained thesis throughout his text, Krueger writes in short bursts about a multiplicity of topics, extending his explorations rhizomatically into the crevices of a new South African society loath to relinquish its stranglehold on the politics of identity.

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About the Author

Anton Krueger is a lecturer in the Department of Drama, Rhodes University. He has travelled extensively to conferences on philosophy, theatre and literature and has presented papers in South Africa, Australia, Russia, China, Amsterdam, Finland, Portugal and Argentina. He holds a DLitt from the University of Pretoria. Anton is also well known as a playwright and his plays have been performed in nine countries, winning numerous awards along the way. He is published and represented in America by Playscripts, New York and in England by Stagescripts, London. Anton's first novel Sunnyside Sal was recently published by Deep South.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
• Publication date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1443814253
• ISBN 13: 9781443814256
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 245