Acts of transgression : contemporary live art in South Africa /

In this groundbreaking collection of critical essays, 15 writers explore the experimental, interdisciplinary and radically transgressive field of contemporary live art in South Africa. Set against a contemporary South African society that is chronologically 'post' apartheid, but one that...

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Other Authors: Pather, Jay (Editor), Boulle, Catherine (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Johannesburg : Wits University Press 2019.
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