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    "pk": 45251,
    "title": "Performing Empire: Theater and Colonialism in Caroline Link's Nirgendwo in Afrika",
    "subtitle": null,
    "abstract": "In Caroline Link's popular 2001 film \nNirgendwo in Afrika\n, a Jewish family fleeing the Holocaust finds refuge in British-controlled Kenya. Theater plays a crucial role in the film: Members of the Redlich family explicitly call upon one another to engage in roleplaying. They make use of theater to experiment, imaginatively, with their new roles within the colonial establishment. The film's production team, as I point out, was similarly preoccupied with questions of theater and theatricality. In interviews, the film's director and producers claim that their indigenous extras struggled to understand the distinction between fiction and reality, often became overly caught up in the roles they were portraying, and could only \nbe\n, not truly \nperform\n, for the camera. In this way, the film's production team discounts their indigenous extras as genuine collaborators and, ultimately, justifies their monopoly over the work of cultural representation. If theater and performance are often portrayed as opening up a path to greater political and social emancipation, we find here instead an example of how it can be used both to initiate individuals into a colonial hierarchy and to maintain and reinforce patterns of exclusion.",
    "language": "en",
    "license": {
        "name": "Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives  4.0",
        "short_name": "CC BY-NC-ND 4.0",
        "text": "Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.\n\nNonCommercial — You may not use the material for commercial purposes.\n\nNoDerivatives — If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you may not distribute the modified material.\n\nNo additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.",
        "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0"
    },
    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "Africa"
        },
        {
            "word": "Caroline Link"
        },
        {
            "word": "Holocaust"
        },
        {
            "word": "migration"
        },
        {
            "word": "Performance Studies"
        },
        {
            "word": "refugees"
        },
        {
            "word": "Stefanie Zweig"
        },
        {
            "word": "Theater"
        }
    ],
    "section": "Articles",
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    "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5rq5n9p3",
    "frozenauthors": [
        {
            "first_name": "Peter",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Erickson",
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            "institution": "",
            "department": "None"
        }
    ],
    "date_submitted": "2020-03-29T05:42:28+02:00",
    "date_accepted": "2020-03-29T05:42:28+02:00",
    "date_published": "2020-03-30T09:00:00+02:00",
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