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Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 255-269

Plays, politics and cultural identity among Indians in Durban

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CULTURAL IDENTITY; ETHNICITY; RACIAL IDENTITY;

EID: 0034037781     PISSN: 03057070     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03057070050010101     Document Type: Article
Times cited : (14)

References (31)
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    • Says R. Govender: 'You must remember, this is the last outpost of the empire, there is no limit to the arrogance and ignorance of white society here. ... In Natal an Indian cannot be accepted as a playwright. We have had predominantly white audiences in Jo'burg and Cape Town, and many black intellectuals as well, but never in Durban. We were always dubbed as Indian theatre, no whites ever took us seriously.' Interview, Durban, 10 November 1998.
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    • Annamalai gives a good account of how the evolution of the Black Consciousness Movement, the affiliated South African Student's Organisation (SASO) and the Black People's Convention (BPC) influenced the agenda of TECON and the productions that took place under its auspices. Annamalai, 'The Development', pp. 153-80.
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    • Glancing through newspaper archives, it is striking that 'white' newspapers primarily reviewed Indian plays when they were seen as properly Indian. Shakuntala was reviewed by Pretoria News, which in a condescending tone found it a 'useful and educative performance', but as art it was 'too much of a pantomime', Pretoria News, 16 January 1989.
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    • note
    • I owe this point to participants at a seminar at the Department of English at University of Natal, Pietermaritzburg who drew my attention to the significance of Uys' work for satire in South Africa as such, and to the danger of interpreting Indian theatre only within its own canonical tradition or an exclusively Indian frame.
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    • Afrikaans slang for Indian, literally 'brown man', now used affectionately among Indians themselves.
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    • note
    • 'All of a sudden Rajbansi has become kosher like anything, and we who fought him all our lives look like fools', a frustrated Indian intellectual said to me after Rajbansi's alliance with ANC was made public. In Rajbansi's own view he is not a turncoat. 'When I was in the House of Delegates, I looked after my people by working within a system we never supported. ... Yes, there were mistakes, but I am the only one of the former members of HoD who have had the guts to face the electorate in our new democracy and ask for their verdict. We have gone from strength to strength. I can walk the streets with my shoulders high.' Interview, Durban, 29 June 1999.
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    • The self-therapeutic use of this form of humour was brought home to me a few months earlier when Alli and Khan in one of their occasional engagements with serious productions staged the twenty-years old American play, The Indian Wants the Bronx. Here Essop Khan played a gentleman from India who only speaks Hindi and lands up in a deserted street at night in the Bronx in New York. The play revolves around how he is humiliated and beaten by two young white toughs. The performance was very raw and the humiliation almost unbearably credible. The reactions from the mainly Indian audience (including many Muslims) ranged from anger ('hey, fight back man' some shouted to Khan, others left the hall cursing and slammed the door) to shock and disgust ('I should never have taken my wife tonight'; 'this is not what I understand as entertainment, it was torture, man'), while others began to laugh nervously.
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    • Interview with Ravi Govender, Durban Cultural and Documentation Centre, 8 September 1998
    • Interview with Ravi Govender, Durban Cultural and Documentation Centre, 8 September 1998.
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