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Settler and creole reenactment / edited by Vanessa Agnew and Jonathan Lamb ; with Daniel Spoth.

Van Pelt Library D16.25 .S44 2009
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Format:
Book
Contributor:
Lamb, Jonathan, 1945-
Agnew, Vanessa.
Spoth, Daniel.
Series:
Reenactment history
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Historical reenactments--Social aspects.
Historical reenactments.
Historical reenactments--Psychological aspects.
Colonization--Social aspects.
Colonization.
Colonization--Psychological aspects.
Colonies--Historiography.
Colonies.
Colonists--Historiography.
Colonists.
Creoles--Historiography.
Creoles.
Colonies in literature.
Colonists in literature.
Creoles in literature.
Historiography.
Psychological aspects.
Social aspects.
Physical Description:
xii, 340 pages : illustrations, plans ; 23 cm.
Other Title:
Settler and creole re-enactment
Place of Publication:
Basingstoke, England ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.
Summary:
"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.
Contents:
Introduction to settlers, creoles and historical reenactment / Jonathan Lamb
Settlers, workers and soldiers : the landscape of total mobilization / Georges Teyssot
Settlers on the edge, or sedentary nomads : Andrei Platonov and steppe history / Donna Landry
Creole Europe : the reflection of a reflection / Christopher Pinney
Alexander Hamilton and the new republic's creole complex / Sean Goudie
"The shrug of horror" : creole performance at King's Bench / James Epstein
Taxonomies of terror / Colin Dayan
Voortrekkers of the Cold War : enacting the South African past and present in Mark Behr's The smell of apples / Monica Popescu
History below the water line : the making of apartheid's last festival / Leslie Witz
Failing with Livingstone : a voyage of reenactment on Lake Nyassa / Iain McCalman
Impossible historical reenactments : invisible aborigines of TV / Chris Healy
Colonialism and reenactment television : imagining belonging in Outback house / Catriona Elder
"Blacking up" for the explorers of 1951 / Stephen Gapps
"The first race of savages the world has seen" : how empire turned out differently in Australia and New Zealand / Mark Williams
Reenacting Aotearoa, New Zealand / Stephen Turner
Reenactment and the natural history of settlement / Alex Calder
Native reenactments/living iterability : Lisa Reihana's Native portraits n19897 / Jo Smith
Epilogue : Genealogies of space in colonial and postcolonial reenactment / Vanessa Agnew.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9780230576063
0230576060
OCLC:
429598360

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