Between Home and Homeland: Facilitating Theatre with Ethiopian Youth

Autor/in	Lev-Aladgem, Shulamith
Titel	Between Home and Homeland: Facilitating Theatre with Ethiopian Youth
Quelle	In: Research in Drama Education, 13 (2008) 3, S.275-293 (19 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1356-9783
Schlagwörter	Creativity; Jews; Boarding Schools; Foreign Countries; Immigrants; Drama; Theater Arts; Adolescents; High School Students; Acculturation; Cultural Pluralism; Models; Indigenous Populations; Audience Response; Ethnicity; Race; Identification; Alienation; Cultural Awareness; Migration; Australia; Canada; Israel; United States + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Kreativität; Jew; Jude; Jüdin; Juden; Boarding school; Internat; Ausland; Immigrant; Immigrantin; Immigranten; Schauspiel; Theaterwissenschaft; Adolescent; Adolescence; Adoleszenz; Jugend; Jugendalter; Jugendlicher; High school; High schools; Student; Students; Oberschule; Schüler; Schülerin; Studentin; Akkulturation; Kulturpluralismus; Analogiemodell; Sinti und Roma; Zuschauerverhalten; Ethnizität; Rasse; Abstammung; Identifikation; Identifizierung; Entfremdung; Cultural identity; Kulturelle Identität; Australien; Kanada; USA
Abstract	The article discusses a community-based theatre project facilitated with a group of Jewish Ethiopian youth in a boarding school in Israel. The intention is to investigate how far a specific group of black immigrants are able to use theatre for their own needs in such a location. It begins with the presentation of the Jewish Ethiopians as a marginalised group in Israel. It then reconsiders the politics of the boarding school as one of the settings of community-based theatre in Israel in light of the Australian model of boarding schools for the Aboriginal children and the Australian government's recent expression of regret for this policy. In the second part the article focuses on the creative process from the play scripting, to the public performance and its reception. The analysis is based on the discourse of diaspora that addresses issues such as ethnicity/race, nationhood, identity, displacement and belonging, which are of major concern here and assist in understanding the complex diasporic condition of this group of Ethiopian youth. The article presents community-based theatre as that cultural intervention that manages to problematise the ambivalent and displaced lived experiences of these young performers as diasporic subjects, and provides them with a critical, reflexive practice with which to confront their "betwixt and between" daily life. (Contains 4 figures and 9 notes.) (As Provided).
Anmerkungen	Routledge. Available from: Taylor & Francis, Ltd. 325 Chestnut Street Suite 800, Philadelphia, PA 19106. Tel: 800-354-1420; Fax: 215-625-2940; Web site: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10