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...Framji Minwalla © 2003 by Yale School of Drama/Yale Repertory Theatre 2003 Framji Minwalla Tony Kushner’s Homebody/Kabul Staging History in a Post-Colonial World Nations, like narratives, lose their origins in the myths of time and only fully realize their horizons...

...Henriëtte Rietveld 104 Henriëtte Rietveld Colonialism Rescaled Ons Wereldrijk (Our Empire) Hotel Modern Theater Rotterdam, Netherlands December 2019 On February 25, 1605, Steven van der Hagen, first admiral of the Dutch East India Company, landed on Ambon, one of the Maluku Islands in Eastern...

...Suely Rolnik In this article, Suely Rolnik positions the curator in the context of integrated worldwide capitalism, suggesting that the “colonial-capitalistic unconscious” tends to drive practices of curation across the globe. She highlights two different curatorial vectors and how these approaches...

...Jacob Gallagher-Ross Jacob Gallagher-Ross reviews Deanna Bowen’s God of Gods: A Canadian Play , an art exhibition that investigates and departs from the legacy of a modernist Canadian production of the same name. He examines Bowen’s critique of the legacies of settler colonialism and the influence...

...André Lepecki In a talk originally presented at the 2015 Munich conference for the “Show Me a World” project, scholar André Lepecki, drawing from postcolonial theory and critical black studies, puts forth a critique of the colonial tendencies within curatorial practice and the art system. Lepecki...

... Considerations The following essay is the written version of my lecture/performance Collective Dancing to Stay Alive. This lecture is configured as an incarnated historiography of works created by Latin American female artists and intellectuals who discussed patriarchy, coloniality, violence, and female...

... that hopes for a kind of impossible solidarity from supposedly previous colonial superpowers. Such a solidarity is impossible because it would guarantee the end of the dominance of these so-­called superpowers, a reneging of the mechanisms of neocolonial domination that allow for the maintenance of said...

... for controlling and censoring theater. The Censorship Board was instituted during the colonial era in 1967 under the Censorship and Entertainment Control Act 1 Chapter 10:04. Although this legislation explicitly spells out its intention to deal with obscenity, nudity, immorality, blasphemy...

... TcIE , PERFORMANCE: A F R I C A NP O P U L ATRH E A T E R WestAfrican Popufar Theatre by Karin Barber, John Collins, and Alain Ricard 1997: Indiana University Press T h e authors of West African Popufar Theatre claim the right to speak of the colonial coast of West Africa from Cape Coast to Lagos...

...- tions onto indigenous African ritual, colonial elite, who wanted to deny the Faces of African Independence: Three Ngugi ignored all imported artists but perpetuation of the colonial system. Plays by Oyono-Mbia and Seydou Ba- the granddaddy of revolutionary theater Ngugi was imprisoned until...

... in Germany since it created vicious consequences, as State Sec- retary for the Colonies, Wilhelm Solf, pro- claimed in 1912, during the Reichstag Debate on the 12th of May entitled The Question of Mongrels. Solf explained that this ques- tion is less one of party interest than of na- tional interest...

... of West African Popufar Theatre claim the right to speak of the colonial coast of West Africa from Cape Coast to Lagos as one cultural zone, and in their multifaceted study they emphasize the exchanges and developments within this zone that allowed West African popular theater to flourish in the 1960s...

... revolves around a number of endemic issues, from exorbitant tuition fees to a curriculum that remains, for the most part, trapped in the colonial paradigm. The 2015 protests first gained prominence when University of Cape Town student Chumani Maxwele threw excrement at the statue of Cecil John...

... meal. Many people assume that mafé meat in a rich peanut sauce with tomato and spices is a traditional West African dish, but in fact, some of us learned, it came to Mali and Senegal only in the twentieth century, when Europe s colonial enterprises needed to encourage peanut production. The recipe...

... suggest that cats stand as historical witnesses to catastrophes that render visible the entanglement of colonial subjugation of animals, women, queers, and racialized and previously colonized subjects in the region. My provocation here is not to engage cats or catastrophe metaphorically. Consider one...

... of this struggle are most The dominated society is then subjected to adopted visions of the universe: thew have conspicuous in nations where a colonial...

... by colonial occupiers were exhibited for popular entertainment. Exhibit B’s cast consists primar- ily of black and coloured South African performers, all of whom display statements explaining why they wanted to participate in the project; Brett Bailey, the production’s director (and the company’s...

... unusual by colonial occupiers were exhibited for popular entertainment. Exhibit B’s cast consists primar- ily of black and coloured South African performers, all of whom display statements explaining why they wanted to participate in the project; Brett Bailey, the production’s director...

..., brought on by con- Ÿicting vectors that have created, now create, and sustain our settler- colonial condition, what of this fantasy of freedom? Let s remember a bedrock (links to settle). The activa- tion of a promissory note, the call to pay up on debts created by foundational promises from a few hundred...

.... And those of us in flawed democracies may be the lucky ones. Authoritarians in countries like Uganda building on colonial legacies have ratcheted up pressure with impunity, forcing queer expression behind closed doors, banning, censoring, entrapping, harassing, publicly shaming, imprisoning...