Library Portal | UWC Portal | National ETDs | Global ETDs
    • Login
    Contact Us | About Us | FAQs | Login
    View Item 
    •   ETD Home
    • Faculty of Arts
    • Department of Anthropology/Sociology
    • Magister Artium - MA (Anthropology/Sociology)
    • View Item
    •   ETD Home
    • Faculty of Arts
    • Department of Anthropology/Sociology
    • Magister Artium - MA (Anthropology/Sociology)
    • View Item
    JavaScript is disabled for your browser. Some features of this site may not work without it.

    The changing faces of the klopse: performing the rainbow nation during the Cape Town carnival

    Thumbnail
    View/Open
    Thesis (10.84Mb)
    Date
    2013
    Author
    Oliphant, Chanell
    Metadata
    Show full item record
    Abstract
    This thesis explores the embodied aesthetics of performance in the making of belonging in post-apartheid South Africa, through an investigation of the klopse, also known as Cape Minstrel and the ‘Coons’, which are part of the annual New Year’s carnival in Cape Town. For this thesis I use the word klopse to refer to the carnival troupes. I map how from its inception the carnival aesthetics changed and came to represent something new and different as the participants engaged with the changing South African and Cape Town society. These changes are explored in connection with both coloured identity politics in the context of the “rainbow nation” discourse and the efforts to represent carnival in Cape Town as a colourful event in a global city to international and national visitors. I argue that at the core of it is the issue of belonging which is embodied through the aesthetics.
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/11394/3969
    Collections
    • Magister Artium - MA (Anthropology/Sociology)

    DSpace 6.3 | Ubuntu | Copyright © University of the Western Cape
    Contact Us | Send Feedback
    Theme by 
    @mire NV
     

     

    Browse

    All of RepositoryCommunities & CollectionsBy Issue DateAuthorsTitlesSubjectsThis CollectionBy Issue DateAuthorsTitlesSubjects

    My Account

    Login

    Statistics

    View Usage Statistics

    DSpace 6.3 | Ubuntu | Copyright © University of the Western Cape
    Contact Us | Send Feedback
    Theme by 
    @mire NV