Settler and creole reenactment
By: edited by Jonathan Lamb, Vanessa Agnew.
Contributors: Lamb, Jonathan, 1945-; Agnew, Vanessa.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780230576063
Subjects: Historical reenactments -- Social aspects; Historical reenactments -- Psychological aspects; Colonization -- Social aspects; Colonization -- Psychological aspects; Colonies -- Historiography; Colonists -- Historiography; Creoles -- Historiography; Colonies in literature; Colonists in literature; Creoles in literature
Other titles: Settler and creole re-enactment
Description: "Explores the uncalculated and incalculable elements in historical re-enactment--unexpected emotions, unplanned developments--and locates them in countries where settlers were trying to establish national identities derived from metropolitan cultures inevitably affected by the land itself and the people who had been there before them"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Jonathan Lamb; title: pt. 1. Europe; title: Settlers, workers, and soldiers : the landscape of total mobilization / Georges Teyssot; title: Settlers on the edge, or sedentary nomads : Andrei Platonov and steppe history / Donna Landry; title: Creole Europe : the reflection of a reflection / Christopher Pinney; title: pt. 2. America; title: Alexander Hamilton and the new republic's creole complex / Sean Goudie; title: The shrug of horror : creole performance at King's Bench / James Epstein; title: Taxonomies of terror / Colin Dayan; title: pt. 3. Africa; title: Voortrekkers of the Cold War : enacting the South African past and present in Mark Behr's The smell of apples / Monica Popescu; title: History below the water line : the making of apartheid's last festival / Leslie Witz; title: Failing with Livingstone : a voyage of re-enactment on Lake Nyassa / Iain McCalman; title: pt. 4. Australia; title: Alcheringa : invisible aborigines on TV / Chris Healy; title: Colonialism and re-enactment history : imagining belonging in Outback House / Catriona Elder; title: Blacking up for the explorers of 1951 / Stephen Gapps; title: pt. 5. New Zealand; title: "The finest race of savages the world has seen" : how empire turned out differently in Australia and New Zealand / Mark Williams; title: Making history forwards : the second settlement of Aotearoa, New Zealand / Stephen Turner; title: Re-enactment and the natural history of settlement / Alex Calder; title: Native reenactments/living iterability : Lisa Reihana's Native portraits, n.19897 / Jo Smith; title: Epilogue: Genealogies of space in colonial and postcolonial reenactment / Vanessa Agnew.