Loss and cultural remains in performance: the ghosts of the franklin expedition
Auteur :
Davis-Fisch, Heather
Éditeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN :
9781349342907
Date de publication :
16 août 2012
Dimensions :
21,6 x 14,0 cm
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Grande Bretagne
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.