Loss and cultural remains in performance
Subtitle: the ghosts of the Franklin Expedition
By: Heather Davis-Fisch
Series: Palgrave studies in theatre and performance history
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York, N.Y
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780230340329
Subjects: Franklin Expedition (1845); Search and rescue operations; Northwest Passage; British; Discovery and exploration
Notes: Based on the author's dissertation (doctoral)--University of Guelph.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Jane Franklin's dress: archives and affect; title: Disciplining nostalgia in the Navy; or, Harlequin in the arctic; title: "The sly fox": reading indigenous presence; title: Going native: "playing Inuit", "becoming savage", and acting out Franklin; title: Aglooka's ghost: performing embodied memory; title: The last resource: witnessing the cannibal scene; title: The designated mourner: Charles Dickens stands in for Franklin; title: Conclusion: Franklin remains.