Chapter 11 National Theatres in Africa Between Modular Modernity and Cultural Heritage
In sub-Saharan Africa a number of national theatres were established from the 1950s onwards. Their construction involved British colonial administration, American philanthropy and Chinese development aid. While each history is particular, they share certain common experiences that can be read as an...
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| description | In sub-Saharan Africa a number of national theatres were established from the 1950s onwards. Their construction involved British colonial administration, American philanthropy and Chinese development aid. While each history is particular, they share certain common experiences that can be read as an allegory of postcolonial history. This narrative is bracketed by the seemingly contradictory terms modular modernity and cultural heritage: modernity with its promise of the new, cultural heritage with its ideology of preservation. While apparently oppositional terms, they are in fact two points on a continuum of Western and Asian influence on the African continent. There is a direct through-line connecting modular modernity with cultural heritage discourse of the post-Cold War period. This chapter’s main example is the National Theatre in Uganda which can read as a test case of shifting discourses and agendas in the context of the Cultural Cold War and its long-term implications. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1122922025-05-09T11:35:02Z Chapter 11 National Theatres in Africa Between Modular Modernity and Cultural Heritage Balme, Christopher B. Cultural Cold War, decolonization, postcolonial studies, cultural diplomacy, national theatre In sub-Saharan Africa a number of national theatres were established from the 1950s onwards. Their construction involved British colonial administration, American philanthropy and Chinese development aid. While each history is particular, they share certain common experiences that can be read as an allegory of postcolonial history. This narrative is bracketed by the seemingly contradictory terms modular modernity and cultural heritage: modernity with its promise of the new, cultural heritage with its ideology of preservation. While apparently oppositional terms, they are in fact two points on a continuum of Western and Asian influence on the African continent. There is a direct through-line connecting modular modernity with cultural heritage discourse of the post-Cold War period. This chapter’s main example is the National Theatre in Uganda which can read as a test case of shifting discourses and agendas in the context of the Cultural Cold War and its long-term implications. 2023-08-08T07:06:12Z 2023-08-08T07:06:12Z 2023-07-17T08:48:18Z 2024 chapter https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/63975 9781032051581 9781032051611 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/112292 eng open access image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/63975/1/9781003196334_10.4324_9781003196334-15.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/63975/1/9781003196334_10.4324_9781003196334-15.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/63975/1/9781003196334_10.4324_9781003196334-15.pdf Taylor & Francis Routledge 10.4324/9781003196334-15 10.4324/9781003196334-15 fa69b019-f4ee-4979-8d42-c6b6c476b5f0 Performing the Cold War in the Postcolonial World H2020 European Research Council 178e65b9-dd53-4922-b85c-0aaa74fce079 9781032051581 9781032051611 European Research Council (ERC) EU collection Routledge 25 694559 open access |
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