Indian Mysteries and Comic Stunts: The Royal Tour and the Theatre of Empire  

Oleh:

Stafford, Jane ; Williams, Mark

Jenis: Article from Article
Dalam koleksi: The Journal of Commonwealth Literature vol. 44 no. 2 (Jun. 2009), page 87-105.
Topik: Royal tours; ornamentalism; E. Pauline Johnson; R.A. Loughnan; Apirana Ngata; Maoriland; Royalty in New Zealand; New Zealand letters from the Prince of Wales (later Edward VIII)
Fulltext: Indian Mysteries and Comic Stunts.pdf (164.98KB)

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This article considers the records of three royal tours ranging from 1869 to 1920 and finds points where the voices of difference within empire merge, where authors adopt contrary stances for different audiences, or where a single text discloses conflicting positions. In Canadian Mohawk poet E. Pauline Johnson’s reconstruction of an 1869 tour by Prince Arthur contemporary public accounts are revisited and the indigenous actors are presented in culturally specific terms. In the account of the Duke and Duchess of York’s 1901 tour of New Zealand, two voices – one settler, one Maori – collaborate and there is an obscurity about who is speaking where. In the private letters of the Prince of Wales’ 1920 tour of New Zealand the manicured script of imperial performance is undercut. Such elaborations, elisions and sub versions of authorial voice raise questions about the confidence with which we assign ideological positions to the different parties in empire.

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