Date: Thu, 11 Jan 1996 13:38:59 -0500 (EST)
From: M Duvall <jmduv-AT-wam.umd.edu>
Subject: Re: subverting military uniform





Rob:

To David's suggestion, I might add Anne McClintock's _Imperial Leather_ 
(Routledge, 1995) which includes a chapter entitled "No Longer in a 
Future Heaven: Nationalism, Gender, and Race," the last bit of which 
discusses the centrality of spectacle in nationalism, and in particular 
in South Africa.

Don't know if it'll help.  Good luck with your project.

Mike Duvall - University of Maryland - Department of English


On Thu, 11 Jan 1996, David Butz wrote:

>  Rob...
> 
> You might want to take a look at Michael Taussig (1993) Mimesis 
> and Alterity: A Particular History of the Senses (Routledge: New York), 
> which provides a fairly sophisticated reading of colonised peoples' 
> appropriation of all sorts of colonisers' attire, including military 
> uniforms (and military parades, etc). Most of his examples are from 
> Central America, with a few from Africa. Also consider looking at E 
> Hobsbawm and T Ranger (eds) (1983?) The Invention of Tradition (Canto?), 
> which has chapters on the invention of tradition in colonial India, and 
> colonial Africa, which touch on your interest in appropriating militaria 
> uniforms and regalia (especially T. Ranger's chapter on colonial Africa).
> 


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