Pacific performances : theatricality and cross-cultural encounter in the South Seas
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Pacific performances : theatricality and cross-cultural encounter in the South Seas
(Studies in international performance)
Palgrave Macmillan, 2007
- hbk
- hbk
Available at 3 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This new study explores the history of cross-cultural performative encounters in the Pacific from the Eighteenth century to the present. It examines Western theatrical representations of Pacific cultures and investigates how Pacific Islanders used their own cultural performances to negotiate the colonial situation.
Table of Contents
- List of Illustrations Preface Introduction Pacific Overtures
- Trumpets, Beaches, and Women Staged Authenticity
- The South Seas and European Theatre, 1785-1830 Comedians and Crusaders
- Anti-Theatrical Prejudice in the South Seas Dressing the Hulas and Taming the Haka
- Performing Identity in Hawaii and New Zealand Kindred Spirits
- Spectacles of Samoa in Wilhelminian Germany Birds of Paradise
- American-Pacific Dramas of Displacement 'As You Always Imagined It': The Pacific as Tourist Spectacle Translocations and Transgressions
- The Postcolonial Pacific Bibliography Index
by "Nielsen BookData"