Transnational Lives: Biographies of Global Modernity, 1700-present

by D. Deacon (Editor), P. Russell (Editor), A. Woollacott (Editor)

Overview

The transnationalism of ordinary lives threatens the stability of national identity and unsettles the framework of national histories and biography. This book takes mobility, not nation, as its frame, and captures a rich array of lives, from the elite to the subaltern, that have crossed national, racial and cartographic boundaries.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780230238701
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	01/29/2010
Series:	Palgrave Macmillan Transnational History Series
Edition description:	2010
Pages:	311
Product dimensions:	5.60(w) x 8.60(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

DESLEY DEACON is Professor of Gender History in the Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University. She taught in the American Studies Department at the University of Texas at Austin from 1985 to 2001. She is the author of Elsie Clews Parsons: Inventing Modern Life (Chicago 1997) and is writing a life of the Australian-born international star Judith Anderson.

PENNY RUSSELL Associate Professor of History at the University of Sydney, Australia. Her books include A Wish of Distinction: Colonial Gentility and Femininity (Melbourne University Press, 1994); and This Errant Lady: Jane Franklin's Overland Journey to Port Phillip and Sydney, 1839 (National Library of Australia, 2002). She is currently completing Arctic Romance: Lady Franklin and the Lost Polar Expedition for the University of Toronto Press.

ANGELA WOOLLACOTT is the Manning Clark Professor of History at the Australian National University. Her books include On Her Their Lives Depend: Munitions Workers in the Great War (University of California Press, 1994); To Try Her Fortune in London: Australian Women, Colonialism and Modernity (Oxford University Press, 2001); and Gender and Empire (Palgrave Macmillan, 2006).

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations viii

Acknowledgements x

Foreword xi

Notes on Contributors xiii

Introduction Desley Deacon Penny Russell Angela Woollacott 1

Part I Writing Lives Transnationally

Issues and Methods:

1 A Story with an Argument: Writing the Transnational Life of a Sea Captain's Wife Martha Hodes 15

2 Peripheral Visions: Heterography and Writing the Transnational Life of Sara Baartman Pamela Scully 27

Boundaries Cross Bodies:

3 Writing the Entrapped Nations of Indigenous Australia into Being Penny van Toorn 41

4 Dancing with Shadows: Biography and the Making and Remaking of the Atlantic World Michael A. McDonnell 54

Part II Opportunities

Fantasies:

5 Opportunists and Impostors in the British Imperial World: The Tale of John Dow, Covict, and Edward, Viscount Lascelles Kirsten McKenzie 69

6 Imperial Melodies: Globalizing the Lives of Cliff Richard and Engelbert Humperdinck Adrian Carton 82

7 Colonial Origins and Audience Collusion: The Merle Oberon Story in 1930s Australia Angela Woollacott 96

Livelihoods:

8 Herbert Hoover and the Transnational Lives of Engineers Carroll Pursell 109

9 Manyat's 'Sole Delight': Travelling Knowledge in Western Australia's Southwest, 1830s Tiffany Shellam 121

10 Connecting Lives: Elihu Yale and the British East India Company Rajani Sudan 133

Performances:

11 'That will allow me to be my own woman': Margaret Anglin, Modernity and Transnational Stages, 1890s-1940s Cecilia Morgan 144

12 Made on Stage: Transnational Performance and the Worlds of Katherine Dunham from London to Dakar Penny M. Von Eschen 156

Part III Quests

Subaltern Crossings: Looking for Liberty:

13 The Transnational Lives of African American Colonists to Liberia Bruce Dorsey 171

14 Resistance in Exile: Anthony Martin Fernando, Australian Aboriginal Activist, Internationalist and Traveller in Europe Fiona Paisley 183

Intimate Crossings: Looking for Love:

15 'Citizens of the World?': Jane Franklin's Transnational Fantasies Penny Russell 195

16 The Meanings of a Transnational Life: The Case of Mary Berenson Ros Pesman 209

Part IV Cosmopolitanism

The World at Home:

17 Lowe Kong Meng Appeals to International Law: Transnational Lives Caught Between Empire and Nation Marilyn Lake 223

18 Becoming Cosmopolitan: Judith Anderson in Sydney, Australia, 1913-1918 Desley Deacon 238

At Home in the World:

19 A World War II Odyssey: Michael Danos, En Route from Riga to New York Sheila Fitzpatrick 252

20 Donald Friend: An Australian Artist's Affair with Italy Ian Britain 263

21 Gypsy in the Sun: The Transnational Life of Rosita Forbes Hsu-Ming Teo 273

Index 286