Muthal naidoo biography template
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Panel Discussion: Cape Town International Book Fair: 17 June 2006
Autobiography, Biography, Memoir: Restoring the authority of the personal
Good afternoon Madam Chair, Panel and Friends, when I looked at the topic for this panel discussion, I struggled with the phrase ‘authority of the personal.’ I wasn’t sure whether it referred to writers or the subjects being written about. If it referred to the writer, was it with reference to empowerment, freedom of choice? If it referred to the subjects was it a reference to respect and human dignity. The phrase also suggests a personal endorsement, like the signature of an artist at the bottom of a painting that declares this is mine and I am proud of it. Then the word ‘restoring’ which suggests both the past and the present and implies that writers lost ‘authority of the personal&rsqu
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College of Fine and Applied Arts
By Nancye Edwards
The writer visits the High Country to participate in the world premiere of her work, “Flight from the Mahabharath,” at Appalachian State University in Boone.
This month, the Department of Theatre and Dance at Appalachian State University will present the world premiere of “Flight from the Mahabharath.” It examines the “Mahābhārata,” one of the two major Sanskrit epics of ancient India, from the perspective of the hona characters. The “Mahābhārata,” often referred to as “the Epic,” serves as a metaphor for a patriarchal society where women function mainly as adjuncts. In the play, the women escape the Epic into a different genre, skådespel. Joined bygd two dock, the play creates a new reality where the characters are free to explore their identities. The stage provides a home for action where the characters redefine themselves.
Author Dr. Muthal Naid
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Plays, Poems, Articles
I spent the years 1977 to 1983, involved in Anti-SAIC and UDF campaigns, which inspired me to write a number of plays: We 3 Kings, a farce about ‘Indian’ elections, Ikhayalethu, about dispossession, Masks, the search for African identity. One of my revues, The Masterplan, a comic interpretation of separate development and the Tricameral Parliament, was banned in September 1983. My last play Flight from the Mahabarath, written sometime in the 1990s, is a feminist critique of the epic.
All my plays have now been published under the title WIP Theatre Plays. (WIP = Work-in-Progress)
Going through my papers, I discovered a number of articles written over the years so I revised them and put them all together with new articles. They include reflections on drama, reactions to apartheid, reflections on writing, my joy at discovering Milan Kundera and my attempt to understand the functions of religion and democracy in a society.