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

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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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Looser, Diana (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, 2014.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Theater.
Pacific Island drama (French)
Pacific Island drama (English)
Historical drama, Pacific Island.
HISTORY > Australia & New Zealand.
Theâtre > Oceanie.
Pacific Island drama (English) > History and criticism.
Pacific Island drama (French) > History and criticism.
Historical drama, Pacific Island > History and criticism.
Theater > Oceania.
Oceania.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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