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Title:'Lovers in time': practice research in the times of patriotic journalism in Zimbabwe
Author:Piotrowska, AgnieszkaISNI
Year:2016
Periodical:Journal of African Media Studies (ISSN 1751-7974)
Volume:8
Issue:2
Pages:219-238
Language:English
Geographic term:Zimbabwe
Subjects:theatre
mass media
journalism
race relations
External link:http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/intellect/jams/2016/00000008/00000002/art00007
Abstract:This article features a practice research in Zimbabwe. The author focuses on the issues surrounding the staging of the most controversial theatrical play during the Harare International Festival of the Arts in 2014, 'Lovers in time', written by Zimbabwean Blessing Hungwe and produced and directed by the author. The author presents the case against the background of the media furore that surrounded the production. She sees the press reactions, which changed from very positive to irrationally vitriolic, as an example of patriotic journalism and Althusserian interpellation. Under the particular circumstances in Zimbabwe, her whiteness, gender and European background were also an issue discussed both in the media and among the members of the theatrical company when decisions had to be made regarding where the lines of belonging lie and why. The article suggests that open discussions of this nature might be helpful in terms of de-mystifying the cultural challenges and subverting patriarchal notions of production of knowledge in which the myth of objectivity is still advanced as the only valid scholarly interrogation. Bibliogr., sum. [Journal abstract]
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