Settler And Creole Reenactment (paperback)

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. Front Matter....Pages i-xii Introduction to Settlers, Creoles and Historical Reenactment....Pages 1-17 Front Matter....Pages 19-19 Settlers, Workers and Soldiers: The Landscape of Total Mobilization....Pages 21-40 Settlers on the Edge, or Sedentary Nomads: Andrei Platonov and Steppe History....Pages 41-54 Creole Europe: The Reflection of a Reflection....Pages 55-78 Front Matter....Pages 79-79 Alexander Hamilton and the New Republic’s Creole Complex....Pages 81-93 “The Shrug of Horror”: Creole Performance at King’s Bench....Pages 94-106 Taxonomies of Terror....Pages 107-120 Front Matter....Pages 121-121 Voortrekkers of the Cold War: Enacting the South African Past and Present in Mark Behr’s The Smell of Apples....Pages 123-137 History Below the Water Line: The Making of Apartheid’s Last Festival....Pages 138-155 Failing with Livingstone: A Voyage of Reenactment on Lake Nyassa....Pages 156-168 Front Matter....Pages 169-169 Impossible Historical Reenactments: Invisible Aborigines on TV....Pages 171-192 Colonialism and Reenactment Television: Imagining Belonging in Outback House....Pages 193-207 “Blacking Up” for the Explorers of 1951....Pages 208-220 Front Matter....Pages 221-221 “The finest race of savages the world has seen”: How Empire Turned Out Differently in Australia and New Zealand....Pages 223-244 Reenacting Aotearoa, New Zealand....Pages 245-258 Reenactment and the Natural History of Settlement....Pages 259-272 Native Reenactments/Living Iterability: Lisa Reihana’s Native Portraits n.19897....Pages 273-293 Epilogue: Genealogies of Space in Colonial and Postcolonial Reenactment....Pages 294-318 Back Matter....Pages 319-340 Introduction / Jonathan Lamb pt. 1. Europe 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 pt. 2. America 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 pt. 3. Africa 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 re-enactment on Lake Nyassa / Iain McCalman pt. 4. Australia Alcheringa : invisible aborigines on TV / Chris Healy Colonialism and re-enactment history : imagining belonging in Outback House / Catriona Elder Blacking up for the explorers of 1951 / Stephen Gapps pt. 5. New Zealand "The finest race of savages the world has seen" : how empire turned out differently in Australia and New Zealand / Mark Williams Making history forwards : the second settlement of Aotearoa, New Zealand / Stephen Turner Re-enactment and the natural history of settlement / Alex Calder Native reenactments/living iterability : Lisa Reihana's Native portraits, n.19897 / 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. Settler and Creole Re-enactment is a collection of essays from around the world (Americas, Europe, Australia, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand) dealing with historical re-enactments undertaken by people born and raised in countries to which their ancestors did not belong. The relation of settlers and creoles to the past is therefore bifurcated, partly belonging to the land in which presently they live, and partly to a different place that is only remembered as home. How then does re-enactment help forge an imagined community with people whose claims on the land are immemorial, a community that includes not only indigenes but a metropolitan culture that is no longer cognate with the realities of settler life, or even with what settlers remember of it? What kinds of shifts and interruptions in historical perspective are necessary to make this a credible history of change and memory, or is it more like a fiction? Is fiction under these circumstances a useful and necessary addition to history, or not? "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.