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Settler and creole reenactment edited by Vanessa Agnew and Jonathan Lamb text

By: Agnew, Vanessa | Spoth, Daniel | Lamb, JonathanMaterial type: TextTextSeries: Reenactment historyPublication details: Basingstoke Palgrave Macmillan 2009Description: 340p. HbkISBN: 9780230576063Uniform titles: Settler and creole re-enactment Subject(s): Colonies in literature | Creoles - Historiography | Colonization - Psychological aspects | Colonies - Historiography | Historical reenactments - Social aspects | Historical reenactments - Psychological aspects | Creoles in literature | Colonization - Social aspects | Colonists - Historiography | Colonists in literatureDDC classification: 909.0405 AGN
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.
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.
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<p>Includes bibliographical references (p. 319-335) and index.</p>

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.

"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.

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