Changing rains, changing voices: Representations of black women over five decades of South African theatre (1950 - 1996)
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Date
1997
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University of the Western Cape
Abstract
Changing rains, changing voices: Representations of black women over five decades of South African
theatre (1950 - 1996)
The general aim of this research paper is to investigate/interrogate, tough analyses of
four popular musicals, images of ideal womanhood put forward by South African popular
theatre at various historical moments. I argue that these images have shifted from decade
to decade (1950 - 1996), revealing the constructed and therefore changeable nature of
unequal gender roles within society.
My research will consist of textual and contextual analyses of the representation of women
in the following popular musicals: King Kong ( 1959), Too Late ( 1975), Sarafina! ( 1987),
and Marabi (1981/1995). The ideas of womanhood posited by the play texts will be
examined vis-d-vis their "struggle narratives" (whose goal is liberation from racial and
economic oppression).
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Magister Artium - MA
Keywords
South African, Representation of women, Changeable nature