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?
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 of Settlement; A.Calder
Bibliography
VANESSA AGNEW is Associate Professor in the German Department, University of Michigan, USA where she researches and teaches on the cultural history of eighteenth-century music, travel, and historical reenactment. She is the author of Enlightenment Orpheus: The Power of Music in Other Worlds and Georg Forster's Voyage Round the World, and coeditor of several volumes on reenactment. She has held research fellowships at the Australian National University, Universität Paderborn, National Maritime Museum, Humboldt Universität, and Forschungszentrum Europäische Aufklärung. She is currently working on a monograph on German historical reenactment and a travel book about patterns.
JONATHAN LAMB has taught at the University of Auckland, Princeton, and Vanderbilt. Currently he is a visiting fellow at Kings College, Cambridge. He is author of Preserving the Self in the South Seas and The Evolution of Sympathy. He is completing a book on things and the imagination for Princeton University Press, as well as two further collections – on maritime reenactment and affective cognition – for PalgraveMacmillan, together with a book on the psychological effects of scurvy.
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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?
Contents
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 of Settlement; A.Calder
Bibliography
Authors
VANESSA AGNEW is Associate Professor in the German Department, University of Michigan, USA where she researches and teaches on the cultural history of eighteenth-century music, travel, and historical reenactment. She is the author of Enlightenment Orpheus: The Power of Music in Other Worlds and Georg Forster's Voyage Round the World, and coeditor of several volumes on reenactment. She has held research fellowships at the Australian National University, Universität Paderborn, National Maritime Museum, Humboldt Universität, and Forschungszentrum Europäische Aufklärung. She is currently working on a monograph on German historical reenactment and a travel book about patterns.
JONATHAN LAMB has taught at the University of Auckland, Princeton, and Vanderbilt. Currently he is a visiting fellow at Kings College, Cambridge. He is author of Preserving the Self in the South Seas and The Evolution of Sympathy. He is completing a book on things and the imagination for Princeton University Press, as well as two further collections – on maritime reenactment and affective cognition – for PalgraveMacmillan, together with a book on the psychological effects of scurvy.
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