Staging and Undoing Apartheid’s Spatial Injustice: Heterotopias in Athol Fugard’s The Island

Spatial injustice persists in the post-apartheid decades in South Africa. Despite a lapse of fifty years after its premiere, Athol Fugard’s The Island still has contemporary resonance for its staging of the spatial injustice that South Africans encountered in the 1960s and 1970s. This article offers...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Research in African literatures Jg. 55; H. 3; S. 169 - 186
1. Verfasser:	Qi, Yaping
Format:	Journal Article
Sprache:	Englisch
Veröffentlicht:	Bloomington Indiana University Press 22.09.2025
Schlagworte:	Actors Apartheid Audiences Black people Criticism and interpretation Deviance Drama Dramatists Empowerment Fugard, Athol Gated communities Injustice Islands Justice Normalization Oppression Playwrights Portrayals Post-apartheid era Prisons Racial segregation Racism Segregation Theater Transgression South Africa Robben Island
ISSN:	0034-5210, 1527-2044, 1527-2044
Online-Zugang:	Volltext
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