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. INDICE: Introduction; J.Lamb - PART I: EUROPE - Settlers, Workers and Soldiers: The Landscape of Total Mobilization; G.Teyssot - Settlers on the Edge, or Sedentary Nomads: Andrei Platonov and Steppe History; D.Landry - Creole Europe: The Reflection of a Reflection; C.Pinney - PART II: AMERICA - Alexander Hamilton and the New Republic's Creole Complex; S.Goudie - 'The Shrug of Horror': Creole Performance at King's Bench; J.Epstein - Taxonomies of Terror; C.Dayan - PART III: AFRICA - Voortrekkers of the Cold War: Enacting the South African Past and Present in Mark Behr's The Smell of Apples ; M.Popescu - History Below the Water Line: The Making of Apartheid's Last Festival; L.Witz - Failing with Livingstone: A Voyage of Re-enactment on Lake Nyassa; I.McCalman - PART IV: AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND - Alcheringa: Invisible Aborigines on TV; C.Healy- Colonialism and Re-enactment History: Imagining Belonging in Outback House;C.Elder - 'Blacking Up' for the 'Explorers' of 1951; S.Gapps - 'The finest race of savages the world has seen' How Empire Turned out Differently in Australia and New Zealand; M.Williams - Making History Forwards: The Second Settlement of Aotearoa, New Zealand; S.Turner - Re-Enactment and the Natural History ofSettlement; A.Calder - Bibliography
- ISBN: 978-0-230-57606-3
- Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 352
- Fecha Publicación: 18/12/2009
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés