By Megan Lewis
ISBN-10: 1609384474
ISBN-13: 9781609384470
Performing Whitely examines the a number of speech acts, political acts, and theatrical acts of the Afrikaner volk or state in theatrical and public existence, together with pageants, museum websites, movie, and renowned track in addition to theatrical productions. Lewis explores the various ways that Afrikaners practice whitely, and the strategies they use, together with nostalgia, melodrama, queering, abjection, and kitsch. She first investigates the best way that apartheid’s architects leveraged whiteness in help in their nation-building efforts within the early 20th century. as well as re-enacting nationwide pilgrimages of colonial-era migrations and development enormous monuments at domestic, Afrikaner nationalists took their convey to the us, staging severe occasions of the Boer conflict on the 1904 St. Louis Exposition. A case research of the South African adventure, Performing Whitely additionally bargains parables for worldwide whitenesses within the postcolonial era.
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