Remaking Pacific Pasts : : History, Memory, and Identity in Contemporary Theater from Oceania / / Diana Looser.
Since the late 1960s, drama by Pacific Island playwrights has flourished throughout Oceania. Although many Pacific Island cultures have a broad range of highly developed indigenous performance forms-including oral narrative, clowning, ritual, dance, and song-scripted drama is a relatively recent phe...
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Looser, Diana, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Remaking Pacific Pasts : History, Memory, and Identity in Contemporary Theater from Oceania / Diana Looser. Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, [2014] ©2014 1 online resource (328 p.) : 19 illustrations text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Pacific Islands Monographs Series Frontmatter -- Editor's Note -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. The Drama and Theater of Oceania: An Overview -- 2. Remembering Captain Cook: Restaging Early Cross-Cultural Encounters -- 3. Revisiting "Tino Rangatiratanga in Action": Māori Theatrical Interpretations of the New Zealand Wars -- 4. Reenacting Hawai'i's History in the Plays of Victoria Nalani Kneubuhl -- 5. Killing the Monster: Reenvisioning the 1987 Coups on the Fiji Stage -- Epilogue -- Appendix Index of Pacific Plays Mentioned in This Volume -- Notes -- References -- Index -- About the Author -- Other Volumes in the Pacific Islands Monograph Series restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star Since the late 1960s, drama by Pacific Island playwrights has flourished throughout Oceania. Although many Pacific Island cultures have a broad range of highly developed indigenous performance forms-including oral narrative, clowning, ritual, dance, and song-scripted drama is a relatively recent phenomenon. Emerging during a period of region-wide decolonization and indigenous self-determination movements, most of these plays reassert Pacific cultural perspectives and performance techniques in ways that employ, adapt, and challenge the conventions and representations of Western theater. Drawing together discussions in theater and performance studies, historiography, Pacific studies, and postcolonial studies, Remaking Pacific Pasts offers the first full-length comparative study of this dynamic and expanding body of work. It introduces readers to the field with an overview of significant works produced throughout the region over the past fifty years, including plays in English and in French, as well as in local vernaculars and lingua francas. The discussion traces the circumstances that have given rise to a particular modern dramatic tradition in each site and also charts routes of theatrical circulation and shared artistic influences that have woven connections beyond national borders. This broad survey contextualizes the more detailed case studies that follow, which focus on how Pacific dramatists, actors, and directors have used theatrical performance to critically engage the Pacific's colonial and postcolonial histories. Chapters provide close readings of selected plays from Hawai'i, Aotearoa/New Zealand, New Caledonia/Kanaky, and Fiji that treat events, figures, and legacies of the region's turbulent past: Captain Cook's encounters, the New Zealand Wars, missionary contact, the overthrow of the Hawaiian monarchy, and the Fiji coups. The book explores how, in their remembering and retelling of these pasts, theater artists have interrogated and revised repressive and marginalizing models of historical understanding developed through Western colonialism or exclusionary indigenous nationalisms, and have opened up new spaces for alternative historical narratives and ways of knowing. In so doing, these works address key issues of identity, genealogy, representation, political parity, and social unity, encouraging their audiences to consider new possibilities for present and future action. This study emphasizes the contribution of artistic production to social and political life in the contemporary Pacific, demonstrating how local play production has worked to facilitate processes of creative nation building and the construction of modern regional imaginaries. Remaking Pacific Pasts makes valuable contributions to Pacific literature, world theater history, Pacific studies, and postcolonial studies. The book opens up to comparative critical discussion a geopolitical region that has received little attention from theater and performance scholars, extending our understanding of the form and function of theater in different cultural contexts. It enriches existing discussions in postcolonial studies about the decolonizing potential of literary and artistic endeavors, and it suggests how theater might function as a mode of historical enquiry and debate, adding to discussions about ways in which Pacific histories might be developed, challenged, or recalibrated. Consequently, the book stimulates new discussions in Pacific studies where theater has, to date, suffered from a lack of critical exposure. Carefully researched and original in its approach, Remaking Pacific Pasts will appeal to scholars, graduate students, and upper-level undergraduate students in theater and performance studies and Pacific Islands studies; it will also be of interest to cultural historians and to specialists in cultural studies and postcolonial studies. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Mrz 2022) Historical drama, Pacific Island History and criticism. Pacific Island drama (English) History and criticism. Pacific Island drama (French) History and criticism. Theater Oceania. 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Frontmatter -- Editor's Note -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. The Drama and Theater of Oceania: An Overview -- 2. Remembering Captain Cook: Restaging Early Cross-Cultural Encounters -- 3. Revisiting "Tino Rangatiratanga in Action": Māori Theatrical Interpretations of the New Zealand Wars -- 4. Reenacting Hawai'i's History in the Plays of Victoria Nalani Kneubuhl -- 5. Killing the Monster: Reenvisioning the 1987 Coups on the Fiji Stage -- Epilogue -- Appendix Index of Pacific Plays Mentioned in This Volume -- Notes -- References -- Index -- About the Author -- Other Volumes in the Pacific Islands Monograph Series |
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