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Loss and Cultural Remains in Performance
The Ghosts of the Franklin Expedition
Langbeschreibung
In 1845, John Franklin's Northwest Passage expedition disappeared. The expedition left an archive of performative remains that entice one to consider the tension between material remains and memory and reflect on how substitution and surrogation work alongside mourning and melancholia as responses to loss.
Hauptbeschreibung
Argues that performance is a crucial way of understanding the affective intercultural impact of the disappearance of John Franklin's Northwest Passage expedition in 1845
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Introduction: Jane Franklin's Dress: Archives and Affect Disciplining Nostalgia in the Navy; or, Harlequin in the Arctic 'The Sly Fox': Reading Indigenous Presence Going Native: 'Playing Inuit,' 'Becoming Savage,' and Acting Out Franklin Aglooka's Ghost: Performing Embodied Memory The Last Resource: Witnessing the Cannibal Scene The Designated Mourner: Charles Dickens Stands in for Franklin Conclusion: Franklin Remains
Heather Davis-Fisch is an instructor in English and Theatre at the University of Fraser Valley, Canada
ISBN-13:
9780230340329
Veröffentl:
2012
Erscheinungsdatum:
16.08.2012
Seiten:
234
Autor:
Heather Davis-Fisch
Gewicht:
408 g
Format:
218x140x18 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
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