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Loss and Cultural Remains in Performance

The Ghosts of the Franklin Expedition
By:Heather Davis-Fisch
Publisher:Springer Nature
Print ISBN:9780230340329
eText ISBN:9781137065995
Edition:0
Copyright:2012
Format:Page Fidelity

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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.