Performing Migrancy and Mobility in Africa Cape of Flows [Hardcover]

Performing Migrancy and Mobility in Africa focuses on a body of performance work, the work of Magnet Theatre in particular but also work by other artists in Cape Town and other parts of the continent or the world, that engages with the Cape as a real or imagined node in a complex system of migration and mobility. Located at the foot of the African continent, lodged between two oceans at the intersection of many of the earth's major shipping lanes, Cape Town is a stage for a powerful mixing of cultures and peoples and has been an important node in a network of flows, circuits of movement and exchange. The performance works studied here attempt to get to grips with what it feels like to be on the move and in the spaces in-between that characterises the lives, now and for centuries before, of multiple peoples who move around and pass through places like the Cape. The contributors are a broad range of mostly African authors from various parts of the continent and as such the book offers an insight into new thinking and new approaches from an emerging and important location.1. Introduction; Mark Fleishman 2. Dramaturgies of Displacement in the Magnet Theatre Migration Project; Mark Fleishman 3. 'Peel the Wound' Cape Town as Passage, Threshold, and Dead-End: Performing the Everyday Traumas of Mobility and Dislocation; Miki Flockemann 4. Creating Communitas: The Theatre of Mandla Mbothwe; Mandla Mbothwe and Hazel Barnes 5. Embodiment, Mobility and the Moment of Encounter in Jonathan Nkala's The Crossing; Samuel Ravengai 6. (Re)-membering the Cape and the Performance of Belonging(s); Pedzisai Maedza 7. Uhambo: Pieces of a Dream  Waiting in the Ambiguity of Liminality; Sara Matchett and Awino Okech 8. Mobility, Migration?and 'Migritude' in Afrocartography: Traces of Places and All Points in Between; Mwenya Kabwe Mamma Africa: A Theatre of Inclusion, Hope(lessness) and Protest; Shannon Elizabeth Hughes 9. On Familiar Roads: The Fluidity of Cape Coloured Experiences and Exprlƒ-