TY  - BOOK
AU  - Looser,Diana
TI  - Remaking Pacific pasts: history, memory, and identity in contemporary theater from Oceania 
T2  - Pacific Islands monograph series
SN  - 9780824839765
AV  - PR9645 .L66 2014
U1  - 792.0995 23
PY  - 2014///]
CY  - Honolulu
PB  - Center for Pacific Islands Studies, School of Pacific and Asian Studies, University of Hawaiʻi, Mānoa
KW  - Pacific Island drama (English)
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Pacific Island drama (French)
KW  - Historical drama, Pacific Island
KW  - Theater
KW  - Oceania
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-298) and index; 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
N2  - 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
ER  -