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Sizwe Banzi Is Dead

Fugard, Kani & Ntshona · 1972 CE · Play · South African · Contemporary

Styles, who left the Ford assembly line to open a photographic studio in New Brighton, tells the house how he raised the loan and what the plant did the day Henry Ford's grandson visited. A customer wanting a portrait to send his wife cannot explain why the name he gives is not the one in the passbook that decides where he may live. Improvised into being with John Kani and Winston Ntshona, and carried from a Port Elizabeth hall to Broadway.

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Attributes

Genre
PoliticalTragicomedy
Theme
Identity & SelfRace & IdentitySurvivalIndividual vs Society
Archetype (Jung / Campbell)
EverymanTricksterShapeshifter
Plot structure
Frame NarrativeDialogue
Symbol / motif
The PortraitThe Book / ManuscriptThe Mask
Conflict
vs Societyvs Self
Mode / tone
IronicRealistSatirical
Culture / tradition
South African

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