Author Archive for: ‘Ashleigh Harris’

“Until time make him white”: Race, Land, and Insurrection in The Rose of Rhodesia

Abstract This paper considers the ways in which The Rose of Rhodesia participates in colonial constructions of race, specifically as the latter relate to questions of land and insurrection. Drawing on a reading of British press coverage of the 1896 Anglo-Ndebele War, it argues that the film recuperates key events in Rhodesia’s early history in order to create a pro-imperial narrative. In …

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