The cinematic life of the Sistren Theatre Collective: Forays into biographical documentary

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dc.contributor.authorEbrahim, Haseenah
dc.date.accessioned2019-08-27T06:31:42Z
dc.date.available2019-08-27T06:31:42Z
dc.date.issued2016
dc.departmentInterdisciplinary Arts and Culture Studies
dc.description.abstractThis article explores two biographical video documentaries produced by the Sistren Theater Collective of Jamaica. Together, the documentaries, Miss Amy and Miss May and The Drums Keep Sounding, document the lives of three Jamaican women activists: Amy Bailey, May Farquharson and Louise Bennett-Coverley. Although video/film production never attained a prominent role in Sistren’s approach to its activism, which focused on participatory drama to address issues of concern to working-class black women, the documentaries produced in the 1980s and 1990s allowed the Collective to expand its reach beyond the limitations imposed by the geographical proximity necessary for live theater. The article examines the structuring devices of these two biographical documentaries and interrogates how the utilization of the medium of video raises class-based ambiguities within the Collective’s mission to celebrate the lives of Caribbean women.en_ZA
dc.description.librarianHE2019en_ZA
dc.facultyFaculty of Humanities
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10539/27892
dc.journal.linkhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08263663.2016.1182285en_ZA
dc.journal.titleThe Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies.en_ZA
dc.journal.volumevol. 41, no. 2en_ZA
dc.language.isoen_USen_ZA
dc.orcid.id0000-0002-1852-5468en_ZA
dc.schoolSchool of Arts
dc.subjectSistren Theatre Collectiveen_ZA
dc.subjectBiographical documentariesen_ZA
dc.subjectJamaica documentariesen_ZA
dc.titleThe cinematic life of the Sistren Theatre Collective: Forays into biographical documentaryen_ZA
dc.typeArticleen_ZA
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