Memory, Expiation and Healing in Bole Butake's Family Saga

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This article proposes a reading of Bole Butake's play, Family Saga (20055. Butake, Bole. 2005. Family Saga , Yaoundé: Editions CLÉ. View all references. Yaoundé: Editions CLÉ), as a very deliberate gesturing and dramatic participation in redeeming, healing and reconciling a fractured post colonial Cameroonian nation, constructed on the historical anxieties and tensions of colonial linguistic binary sentimentalities. Drawing largely from paradigms of forum and playback theatres’ matrices of practice, the article foregrounds memory, myth and collective narratives as templates upon which truth and falsehood are played out in the play, in a conscious attempt to engineer processes of expiation and amelioration, redemption and healing and eventually reconciliation.View full textDownload full textKeywordsallegory, applied theatre, Cameroon, healing, memory, reconciliationRelated var addthis_config = { ui_cobrand: "Taylor & Francis Online", services_compact: "citeulike,netvibes,twitter,technorati,delicious,linkedin,facebook,stumbleupon,digg,google,more", pubid: "ra-4dff56cd6bb1830b" }; Add to shortlist Link Permalink http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10131751003755930