Susan Rasmussen

Persons of Courage and Renown

Tuareg Actors, Acting, Plays, and Cultural Memory in Northern Mali

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book explores culture, memory, and creativity in acting and plays in Tamajaq-speaking, Muslim, semi-nomadic Tuareg society in northern Mali. Rasmussen analyzes how Tuareg actors negotiate cultural memory and encounters in communities, caught historically and currently between political violence and precarious peace.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 236
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 506g
• ISBN-13: 9781498582575
• ISBN-10: 1498582575
• Artikelnr.: 54809637

Autorenporträt

By Susan Rasmussen

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 General Background on the Tuareg, the Kel Adagh, and the Town and
Region of Kidal Chapter 2 Situating Acting and Creativity in Culture,
Place, and Memory Chapter 3 The Poetics and Politics of Aesthetic Style and
Genre and The Ibaraden Actors Chapter 4 Acting and Cultural Translation:
Actors and Audiences as Interpreters and Mediators in Reformulating
"Traditional" and "Modern" Chapter 5 Rural-Urban and Nomadic-Sedentarized
Encounters Chapter 6 Disputed Gender, Relations Between the Sexes, and
Embodied Performance Chapter 7 Youths and Elders: Resistance and Healing in
Intergenerational Ambivalence Chapter 8 Religious Reflections and Social
Dissonance Conclusions Nostalgic Yearning and Cultural Critique