Loss and Cultural Remains in Performance: The Ghosts of the Franklin Expedition - Hardcover

by Heather Davis-Fisch (Author)

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.

Author Biography

Heather Davis-Fisch is an instructor in English and Theatre at the University of Fraser Valley, Canada