Remaking Pacific Pasts : : History, Memory, and Identity in Contemporary Theater from Oceania /

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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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter UHP eBook Package 2014-2016
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Looser, Diana,
Place / Publishing House:Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2014]
©2014
Year of Publication:2014
Language:English
Series:Pacific Islands Monographs Series
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Physical Description:1 online resource (328 p.) :; 19 illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • 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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