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Loren Kruger, A Century of South African Theatre

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abstract: A Century of South African Theatre revises and updates Loren Kruger’s seminal book, The Drama of South Africa. Kruger rejects essentializing categories such as African or European, arguing that South African theatre mixes local and transnational forms. The book provides a useful survey of South Africa’s past century of theatre.
University of Toronto Press Inc. (UTPress)
Title: Loren Kruger, A Century of South African Theatre
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abstract: A Century of South African Theatre revises and updates Loren Kruger’s seminal book, The Drama of South Africa.
Kruger rejects essentializing categories such as African or European, arguing that South African theatre mixes local and transnational forms.
The book provides a useful survey of South Africa’s past century of theatre.

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