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Raising the ghosts of justice: Staging time and the memory of Empire in The Trial of Governor Eyre
Cultural Dynamics ( IF 0.5 ) Pub Date : 2019-08-01 , DOI: 10.1177/0921374019847566
Jason Allen-Paisant 1
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I examine the staging of time, justice and performance in The Trial of Governor Eyre, investigating what this site-specific performance reveals about the experience of time in the context of colonial violence. In doing so, I show that the work’s discourse on temporality reflects a vital sense of performativity within an Afro-diasporic context. The work’s use of temporality, besides reflecting a cultural adaptation, allows for a remoulding of forms, coupling law and theatre in confronting Eyre’s mass executions of 1865. This remoulding of forms (law as theatre, theatre as law) provides a potential for postcolonial witnessing not available when either performance protocol is used on its own. Using Blazevic’s and Cale Feldman’s concept of ‘misperformance’, I argue that this play-trial arises out of a Benjaminian sense of historicity, providing an experience of inchoate justice that finds fulfilment in the present. The Trial of Governor Eyre points, more broadly, to a new ‘problem-space’ in African diaspora political theory, where resistance against colonial structures of oppression is increasingly mounted on the ground of justice itself and through which the legal apparatuses of colonialism become a site of critical memory. Through the play’s deployment of ritual and its plastic moulding of time, 1865 is enlisted as a key historical conjuncture for thinking through the cultural disenchantment of race, but also of the formalist, creative resources that can be mobilised for reimagining humanness in the contemporary moment.

中文翻译:

唤起正义的幽灵:艾尔州长的审判中的上演时间和对帝国的记忆

我在《总督艾尔审判》中考察了时间,正义和表演的舞台,调查了针对特定地点的表演所揭示的关于殖民暴力背景下的时间经历。通过这样做,我证明了该作品关于时间性的论述反映了在非流离失所者语境中一种至关重要的表演意识。该作品对时间的运用,除了反映出一种文化适应性之外,还允许对形式进行改造,在面对1865年艾尔的大规模处决时将法律与戏剧结合起来。这种形式的改造(法律作为剧院,戏剧作为法律)为后殖民的见证提供了潜力当单独使用任一性能协议时不可用。我使用布拉泽维奇(Blazevic)和凯尔·费尔德曼(Cale Feldman)的“表现不佳”概念,认为这场比赛是出于本杰明主义的历史性,提供可以在当下实现的早期正义经验。艾尔州长的审判更广泛地指出了非洲侨民政治理论中的一个新的“问题空间”,在这种情况下,对殖民压迫结构的抵抗越来越多地基于正义本身,而殖民主义的法律手段由此成为一种正义的手段。关键内存的站点。通过戏剧的仪式布署和时间塑形,1865年被选为重要的历史契机,通过种族的文化分解来思考,同时也可以利用形式主义的创造性资源来调动当代的人性。非洲散居政治理论中的一个新的“问题空间”,在这种情况下,对殖民压迫结构的抵制越来越以正义本身为基础,通过它,殖民主义的法律手段成为批判性记忆的场所。通过戏剧的仪式布署和时间塑形,1865年被选为重要的历史契机,通过种族的文化分解来思考,同时也可以利用形式主义的创造性资源来调动当代的人性。非洲散居政治理论中的一个新的“问题空间”,在那里,对殖民压迫结构的抵制越来越以正义本身为基础,殖民主义的法律手段通过它成为批判性记忆的场所。通过戏剧的仪式布署和时间塑形,1865年被选为重要的历史契机,通过种族的文化分解来思考,同时也可以利用形式主义的创造性资源来调动当代的人性。
更新日期:2019-08-01
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