Acts of Activism Human Rights as Radical Performance Theatre and Performance Theory 1st Edition by D Soyini Madison ISBN 0521519225 9780521519229

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ISBN 10: 0521519225

ISBN 13: 9780521519229

Author: D. Soyini Madison

This book was first published in 2010. Madison presents the neglected yet compelling and necessary story of local activists in South Saharan Africa who employ modes of performance as tactics of resistance and intervention in their day-to-day struggles for human rights. The dynamic relationship between performance and activism are illustrated in three case studies: Act One presents a battle between tradition and modernity as the bodies of African women are caught in the cross-fire. Act Two focuses on ‘water democracy’ as activists fight for safe, accessible public water as a human right. Act Three examines the efficacy of street performance and theatre for development in the oral histories of Ghanaian gender activists. Unique to this book is the continuing juxtaposition between the everyday performances of local activism and their staged enactments before theatre audiences in Ghana and the USA. Madison beautifully demonstrates how these disparate sites of performance cohere in the service of rights, justice, and activism.

Table of contents:

Act I: Is it a human being or a girl?
Scene one: Watching 60 Minutes
Scene two: Deep particularities
Scene three: Klikor, the sage, and the chief
Scene four: Graduation day
Act II: Water rites/rights
Scene one: “Then do it
Scene two: The sense of being present
Scene three: The aim to provoke
Scene four: Who am I in all this?
Act III: Acts of activism
Scene one: The white girl upstairs
Scene two: Don’t cry, wail
Scene three: L am an activist
Scene four: Narrating Theatre for Development

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