- Title
- Political animals: engagements with imperial and gender discourses in late-colonial Australian circuses
- Creator
- Arrighi, Gillian
- Relation
- Theatre Journal Vol. 60, Issue 4, p. 609-629
- Relation
- http://www.press.jhu.edu/journals/theatre_journal/index.html
- Publisher
- John Hopkins University Press
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2008
- Description
- By referring to several wild animal acts presented in Australia in the 1890s at the high-status circuses of Frank Fillis and the FitzGerald Brothers, this essay explores the complex cultural interactions that occurred in the relationship between these major circuses and their late-colonial public. The author matches the circus’s wild animal act to nation-building tropes and examines the narratives of identity, patriotism, allegiance, and power that were articulated through these popular and unusual performances.
- Subject
- circus history; circus Australia; circus animals
- Identifier
- uon:5433
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/43313
- Identifier
- ISSN:0192-2882
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