The game lodge sells a blend of colonial time and prehuman natural time

Evidence

The white game lodge is a classic instance of what Anne McClintock terms an anachronistic space, a space marked as noncoeval with the world around it and whose implication in modernity is suppressed. … In its antimodern dimension the lodge exists as a temporal enclave in a double, layered sense: the temporal styles evoked are both historically colonial (self-effacing servants vanishing into the bush, white campfire camaraderie, male tales of derring-do) and eternally natural (a time outside of time, before and after the human, when megafauna rule—Kleinhans’s “eternity of bush”). Crucially, for our purposes, the game lodge locates itself in the postapartheid marketplace by selling a blended aura of colonial time and prehuman natural time. — Rob Nixon, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism…, 514

Categorization

• XREF: Feeds the eco-justice literature strand: narrative devices that suppress the present also suppress ongoing harm — closely related to ch3’s ‘postconflict labels erase harms’ claim. — connects to: The game lodge is an atavistic space that denies while capitalizing on postapartheid modernity — Rob Nixon, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism…, 514