Settler and Creole Reenactment

Settler and Creole Reenactment is a collection of essays from around the world dealing with historical reenactments undertaken by people born and raised in countries to which their ancestors did not belong. The relation of settlers and creoles to the past is therefore bifurcated, partly belonging to the land in which they presently live, and partly to a different place that is only remembered as home. How then does reenactment help forge an imagined community with people whose claims on the...