Ch. 3 Layering space: Staging and remembering 'home' (P.87 - 109)
- P.87 Our aim here is to define the public / private dichotomy in terms of real space and imaginary space, especially in the context of 'home' space: both the private home and the more 'public' home of geo-political space to which one feels allied.
- P.88 ...postcoloniality is one of the most intercultural of sites in social, cultural , and geo-political discourses, even if the substantial power imbalances that colonialism generated cause the intercultural nature of postcoloniality to remain largely unacknowledged.
- We investigate three main types of space: location space (or the play's setting), theatre space (architecture and production design), and geo-political space (determined by narrative).
Constructions of Space
- P.89 One need only consider the effect of various architectural designs - including the architecture of theatre buildings - to understand how the organization of space governs social existence.
- Edward Soja breaks down spatiality into a tripartite interrelationship which provides a formula for understanding the components of space: social, physical, and mental (Soja 1989:120).
- P.92 Colonialism's cross-cultural encounter frequently resulted in a cultural double-cross, with the colonised culture duped or forced into relinquishing (放棄) to the colonisers their cultural autonomy and political self-determination. Postcolonialism, defined as any type of resistance to colonialism that colonised peoples have mounted, is circumscribed (限制) by a specific contest for literal and metaphoric space. Postconlonialism's direct strategy of redressing colonial spatial organization provides an alternative to marked, bounded, defined colonial space. This site of intercultural tension is central in the ongoing negotiation between an invading culture and a pre-existing culture.
The Play
- You have come back
- Have you seen Zandile?
Location Space
- P. 96 ...location space constructs a sense of physical restriction and confinement that intersects with the space of imaginary plenitude (豐富) and the socio-political context of the plays' narratives.
Holledge, Julie, and Joanne Tompkins. Women's Intercultural Performance. New York: Routledge, 2000.
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