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Remaking Pacific pasts : history, memory, and identity in contemporary theater from Oceania / Diana Looser.

By:

Looser, Diana [author.]

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Pacific islands monograph series ; no. 28.Publisher: Honolulu : Center for Pacific Islands Studies, School of Pacific and Asian Studies, University of Hawaiʻi, Mānoa, [2014]Copyright date: ©2014Description: xiv, 305 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9780824839765
0824839765

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

792.0995 23

LOC classification:

PR9645 .L66 2014

Contents:

Introduction -- 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: reenvisioning the 1987 coups on the Fiji stage -- Epilogue.

Summary: 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 -- From publisher's website.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	City Campus City Campus Main Collection	792.0995 LOO (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		A555812B

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-298) and index.

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 -- From publisher's website.

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