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Title Persons of courage and renown: Tuareg actors, acting, plays, and cultural memory in northern Mali
Creators Rasmussen Susan J.,
Collection Электронные книги зарубежных издательств ; Общая коллекция
Subjects Tuaregs — Social life and customs. ; Tuaregs — Drama — History and criticism. ; Theater — History. ; Collective memory in literature. ; Theater. ; Tuaregs. ; EBSCO eBooks
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Language English
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Record key on1077614210
Record create date 11/29/2018

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This book explores culture, memory, and creativity in acting and plays in Tamajaq-speaking, Muslim, semi-nomadic Tuareg society in northern Mali. Rasmussen analyzes how Tuareg actors negotiate cultural memory and encounters in communities, caught historically and currently between political violence and precarious peace.

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  • Cover
  • Persons of Courage and Renown
  • Persons of Courage and Renown: Tuareg Actors, Acting, Plays, and Cultural Memory in Northern Mali
  • Copyright page
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
    • Arrivals, Departures, and Returns
    • Orientations: Remoteness, Connections, Dispersals, and Gatherings
    • Acting, Performance, and Culture: Preliminary Remarks
    • Organization of the Book
    • Notes
  • Part I: The Actors, Verbal Arts, and Performance
    • Chapter 1
      • General Background on the Tuareg, the Kel Adagh, and the Town and Region of Kidal
        • The Town of Kidal
        • “When I Compose, This Gives Me the Desire to Live”: Atakor’s Story
        • Performance Venues, Media, and Cultural, Social, and Political Life in and around Kidal
        • Sum-Up of Preliminary Insights
    • Chapter 2
      • Situating Acting and Creativity in Culture, Place, and Memory
        • Creative Inspiration to Perform in the Space of Essuf/Tenere
        • Creativity as Emergent and Subjective
        • Sum-Up
        • Note
    • Chapter 3
      • The Poetics and Politics of Aesthetic Style and Genre and the Ibaraden Actors
        • Joking by Mahmoudan, the Witty Tailor
        • A Teachable Moment during a Visit and Saidi’s Brief Tale
        • Historical Perspectives on Performing Arts
        • Continuities, Changes, and Conflicts in Aesthetic Styles and in SocioPolitical Life
        • Actors’ Art as Resistance, Negotiation, Mediation, and Accommodation
        • Implications for Memory in Acting
        • Notes
    • Chapter 4
      • Acting and Cultural Translation
        • Broader Issues of the “Traditional,” the “Modern,” the Local, National, and Global in Performance
        • Promoting the Miss Kidal Beauty Contest
        • Evaluating Old and New Plays
        • Performance and Space
        • The Fusion of Ibaraden and Troubadour Imagery in Modern Acting and Issues of Power
        • Endangered but Resilient Acting and Performance: What Next?
  • Part II: The Plays
    • Chapter 5
      • Rural-Urban and Nomadic-Sedentarized Encounters
        • “AIDS Exists”
        • The Wider Context
        • Implications: Selective Cultural Memory
    • Chapter 6
      • Disputed Gender, Relations between the Sexes, and Embodied Performance
        • The Urban Body and Body Politics in Media and Performance
        • Gender and Performance in Historical and Comparative Perspective
        • Note
    • Chapter 7
      • Youths and Elders
        • Bundles of Contradictions: Cultural Knowledge, Memory, and Authorship in Creative Dynamics between the Generations
        • Age in Tuareg Performance: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives
        • Youths, Elders, and Intergenerational Social Relationships
    • Chapter 8
      • Religious Reflections and Social Dissonance
        • Sacred Spaces and Times
        • Additional Verbal Art Representations of the Coming of Islam, the Kel Essouk, and Essouk-Taddamekka
        • De-Sacralized Spaces and Times
        • Note
    • Conclusions
      • An Ethnographic Postscript
    • Bibliography
    • Index
    • About the Author
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