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Author Young, Hershini Bhana, author

Title Illegible will : coercive spectacles of labor in South Africa and the diaspora / Hershini Bhana Young
Published Durham : Duke University Press, 2017
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Description 1 online resource (x, 270 pages)
Contents Returning to Hankey : Sarah Baartman and endless repatriations -- "Force refigured as consent" : the strange case of Tryntjie of Madagascar -- Performing debility : Joice Heth and Miss Landmine Angola -- Slow death : "Indian" performances of indenture and slavery -- Becoming undone : performances of vulnerability
Summary Hershini Bhana Young engages with the archive of South African and black diasporic performance to examine the absence of black women's will from that archive, showing that alternative critical imaginings juxtaposed against traditional historical research can help to locate where agency and will may reside
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on March 08, 2017)
Subject Performing arts -- Social aspects -- South Africa
Black people in the performing arts
Southern African literature -- Themes, motives
African diaspora.
Slave labor -- History
Forced labor -- History
Will.
Volition
PERFORMING ARTS -- Theater -- General.
African diaspora
Black people in the performing arts
Forced labor
Performing arts -- Social aspects
Slave labor
Will
South Africa
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2016038931
ISBN 9780822373339
0822373335