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

Magister Artium - MA === 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...

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Main Author: Oliphant, Chanell
Other Authors: Becker, Heike
Language:en
Published: University of the Western Cape 2015
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/11394/3969