In The Land Is Sung, Thomas M. Pooley shows how performances of song, dance, and praise poetry connect Zulu communities to their ancestral homes and genealogies. The dynamics of governance and tradition are explored in studies of rural and migrant communities in the midlands and borderlands of South Africa. Pooley theorizes the politics of performance through a series of critical interventions in postcolonial debates on land, identity, language, education, and environmental ethics.
[More]
