Victorian traffic [[electronic resource] ] : identity, exchange, performance / / edited by Sue Thomas

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910463446303321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Newcastle, : Cambridge Scholars, 2008
• ISBN: 1-4438-1025-8
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (349 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): ThomasSue <1955->
• Disciplina: 306.3094109034
• Soggetti: Communication and traffic - Great Britain - History - 19th century; Electronic books.; Great Britain History Victoria, 1837-1901
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: TABLE OF CONTENTS; LIST OF IMAGES; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; INTRODUCTION; PART I; GIFTS OF PATCHWORK AND VISITS TO WHITEHALL; "I CANNOT SEE ONE WITHOUT THINKING OF THE OTHER"; AUTHORISING THE SELF; EXOTICISM IN ANGLO-INDIAN WOMEN'S FICTION, 1880-1920; "FLASHED FROM WIRE TO WIRE, THROUGH THE CONTINENTS OF THE OLD AND NEW WORLD"; THE TRAFFIC IN GOSSIP; ANGLO-AUSTRALIANS ON FLEET STREET, 1892-1905; FRIEDA CASSIN'S WITH SILENT TREAD AND THE SPECTRE OF LEPROSY IN ANTIGUA AND BRITAIN, 1889-91; PART II; AGENTS OR OBJECTS?; PAULINE JOHNSON-TEKAHIONWAKE; OSCAR'S WILD(E) YEAR IN AMERICA; FEMALE PLEASURE AND MUSCULAR ARMS IN TOURING TRAPEZE ACTSPART III; TRAFFIC IN PICTURES; TRANSPORTING GENRES; THE TRAFFIC OF IDENTITY; LITTLE MAN WALKING; "THE GREAT AND WONDERFUL LABYRINTH"; SPECTRAL TRAFFIC; BIBLIOGRAPHY; CONTRIBUTORS; INDEX
• Sommario/riassunto: Organised around the themes Home and Abroad, Performative Traffic, and Image, Circulation, Mobility, Victorian Traffic: Identity, Performance, Exchange variously addresses the cultural dimensions of traffic in the long Victorian period: cross-cultural experience; colonial and racial imaginaries; everyday, literary, autobiographical and professional stagings of identity; and trade in metaphors, communications, texts, images, celebrity, character types, and quilts. ; The concept of traffic underpins historical interpretation and theoretical formulations, and the rhetorics of trade in Victorian usage are contextualised. Understandings of identity emphasise the performative and the negotiation of agency in relation to social and cultural scriptings of gender, class, ethnicity and community. The essays have a wide global range and reach.'This collection of essays takes as its theme an enormously important concept for the nineteenth century: traffic, a term that, in a time of unprecedented commercial and imperial expansion, technological developments, population growth and urbanization, acquired new resonance, and came to signify the intensely transactional nature of modernity. One of Ruskin's most searing critiques of the spiritual condition of England, an invited lecture he delivered in 1864 on the topic of the Bradford Exchange, is entitled ‘Traffic', and the word clearly signifies for him all that is wrong with post-industrial capitalism. But this stimulating volume encompasses a range of other significations that have additionally come to accrue around the term, relating for example to inter-cultural exchange, to the circulation of ideas and images, to the commodification of identity, and to literature, art and performance in the market place. The scope of the collection is, appropriately, global, including essays on England's relations of exchange with Australia, New Zealand, North America, the Far East, and the Caribbean. What we are shown ineluctably is that the traffic between Victorian Britain and the reaches of empire, between Home and Abroad, was two-way, a vehicle for cross-cultural encounter, mediation and trade; and that cultural identity is relational, circulatory and always in motion.'—Hilary Fraser, Birkbeck, University of London.

South African performance and archives of memory / / Yvette Hutchison

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910823927503321
• Autore: Hutchison Yvette
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Manchester, UK : , : Manchester University Press, , 2015; ©2013
• ISBN: 1-5261-0324-9; 1-5261-0323-0
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xii, 238 pages) : illustrations; digital file(s)
• Collana: Theatre : theory, practice, performance
• Disciplina: 792.0968
• Soggetti: Theater - Political aspects - South Africa; Collective memory - South Africa; South African drama - History and criticism; Theatre Studies; Republic Of South Africa; PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / General; Literary studies: plays & playwrights; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction -- 1. The TRC's Reconfiguring of the Past: Remembering and Forgetting -- 2. Dramatising the TRC: The role of theatre practitioners in exploring the past -- 3. Staging a nation: the Voortrekker Monument and Freedom Park -- 4. Performing the African Renaissance and the 'Rainbow Nation' -- 5. Post-apartheid repertoires of memory -- Bibliography.
• Sommario/riassunto: This book explores how South Africa is negotiating its past in and through various modes of performance in contemporary theatre, public events and memorial spaces. It analyses the Truth and Reconciliation Commission as a live event, as an archive, and in various theatrical engagements with it, asking throughout how the TRC has affected the definition of identity and memory in contemporary South Africa, including disavowed memories. Hutchison then considers how the SA-; Mali Timbuktu Manuscript Project and the 2010 South African World Cup opening ceremony attempted to restage the nation in their own ways. She investigates how the Voortrekker Monument and Freedom Park embody issues related to memory in contemporary South Africa. She also analyses current renegotiations of popular repertoires, particularly songs and dances related to the Struggle, revivals of classic European and South African protest plays, new history plays and specific racial and ethnic histories and identities.; "This book argues that memory functions as a key element in contemporary South African re-imagining of historical events and in constructing new definitions of national and personal identity. It compares two ways in which memory is embodied: in repertoires of practices, songs, dance, rituals, and in material archives, texts, documents, buildings. The particular contribution of this study is its focus on the role of performance in South Africa's renegotiation of memory and historical understanding, as exemplified in public events such as the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, the South Africa-Mali Timbuktu Manuscript Project and the 2010 World Cup opening ceremony, and in memorial sites such as the Voortrekker Monument and Freedom Park. The book explores the implications of translating diverse embodied memories into a coherent, official national narrative that is usually defined and made coherent that is, over-simplified - by the state, which defines South Africa as a unitary 'rainbow nation'. The book compares official narratives that have tended to define how the 'new' South Africa is remembering the past to various theatrical engagements with memory that highlight specific disavowed themes which recur in post-apartheid South African theatre, which include exile, ghosts and hauntings, masculinity, and the tension between justice and reconciliation. The analyses extend beyond thematic accounts to include exploring the reasons for and effects of juxtaposing 'realist' and 'verbatim' aesthetics to more exaggerated, hyper-theatricalised forms. Ultimately this book argues for keeping archives and repertoires open to reinvestigation and reinterpretation, and in dialogue with one another." -- Back cover.