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Tydskrif vir Letterkunde
versión On-line ISSN 2309-9070
versión impresa ISSN 0041-476X
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JAKUBCZUK, Renata y WOTOWSKI, Witold. Democratic Republic of Congo: dramaturgies of conflict (ideas and forms). Tydskr. letterkd. [online]. 2021, vol.58, n.1, pp.46-60. ISSN 2309-9070. http://dx.doi.org/10.17159/tl.v58i1.8285.
This article, which focuses on selected plays by contemporary Congolese playwrights, has two objectives: the first of which is to illustrate how theatre production in the DRC in contemporary times has been devoted to highlighting various social and political conflicts within the society. The paper's second objective is to examine the aesthetic and technical aspects of the plays under study, such as the use of allegory, metaphors, verbal invention, proverbs, enunciative heterogeneity, voice orchestration, and theatricality encoded in stage directions (didascalia). Through its critical analysis of dramaturgy and style, the paper reveals the manner in which the authors display a heightened sense of awareness about conflicts within their society by employing an agonistic mode in their plot construction. The paper also highlights how the plays have contributed greatly to the development of writing for performance in Africa in general, and in the Democratic Republic of Congo in particular.
Palabras clave : Congo theatre; conflict; diegesis; discursive strategies; esthetical methods.