Oral English in South African theater of the 1980s

dc.contributor.author	Banning, Yvonne	eng
dc.date.issued	1998-10	eng
dc.description	In this paper I examine the role of theater in promoting a new nonracial democracy in South Africa during the 1980s.1 Theater performances are seen as mediations between oral and literate English, enacted in the dramatic relations of the fictional world on the stage and in the theatrical relationship between performers and their audiences in the social space of the theater. Studies of two South African plays, Sophiatown and Asinamali, demonstrate how these connections are embodied in the presentation of the plays; I also show how they direct an audience's perceptions of their social world towards creative alternatives to that world.	eng
dc.format.extent	24 pages	eng
dc.identifier.citation	Oral Tradition, 13/2 (1998): 398-421.	eng
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/10355/65054
dc.language	English	eng
dc.title	Oral English in South African theater of the 1980s	eng
dc.type	Article	eng