Persons of courage and renown Tuareg actors, acting, plays, and cultural memory in northern Mali
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...
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| Language: | English |
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Lanham, Maryland
Lexington Books,
[2019]
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| Online Access: | EBSCOhost Перейти в каталог НБ ТГУ |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Malian Tuareg (Kel Tamajaq) theatrical performance: creativity in crisis, vulnerability, and resilience
- The actors, verbal arts, and performance
- General background on the Tuareg, the Kel Adagh, and the town and region of Kidal
- Situating acting and creativity in culture, place, and memory
- The poetics and politics of aesthetic style and genre and the ibaraden actors
- Acting and cultural translation: actors and audiences as interpreters and mediators in reformulating "traditional" and "modern"
- The plays: popular plot themes and their wider social contexts
- Rural-urban and nomadic-sedentarized encounters
- Disputed gender, relations between the sexes, and embodied performance
- Youths and elders: resistance and healing in intergenerational ambivalence
- Religious reflections and social dissonance
- Conclusions: nostalgic yearning and cultural critique.