Tokens or Totems? Eccentric Props in Postcolonial Re-enactments of Colonial Consecration

During colonial expansion the ceremonial insertion of archetypes of European civilisation into terra nullius served two opposing ends: to make visible territorial claims and to conceal the illegitimacy of these claims. While aware of this ambivalence, modern texts re-enacting colonial spectacles of...

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Main Author: Ramsey-Kurz, Helga (Author)
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Language:English
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Published: Oxford University Press 2007
In: Literature and theology
Year: 2007, Volume: 21, Issue: 3, Pages: 302-316
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