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

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 p...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Looser, Diana (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, 2014.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The drama and theatre of Oceania: an overview
  • Remembering Captain Cook: restaging early cross-cultural encounters
  • Revisiting "tino rangatiratanga in action": Māori theatrical interpretations of the New Zealand wars
  • Re-enacting Hawaiʻi's history in the plays of Victoria Nalani Kneubuhl
  • Killing the monster: re-envisioning the 1987 coups on the Fiji stage.