Remaking Pacific Pasts: History, Memory, and Identity in Contemporary Theater from Oceania 9780824847753
Since the late 1960s, drama by Pacific Island playwrights has flourished throughout Oceania. Although many Pacific Islan
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Table of contents :
Editor’s Note
Contents
Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. The Drama and Theater of Oceania: An Overview
2. Remembering Captain Cook: Restaging Early Cross-Cultural Encounters
3. Revisiting “Tino Rangatiratanga in Action”: Māori Theatrical Interpretations of the New Zealand Wars
4. Reenacting Hawai‘i’s History in the Plays of Victoria Nalani Kneubuhl
5. Killing the Monster: Reenvisioning the 1987 Coups on the Fiji Stage
Epilogue
Appendix Index of Pacific Plays Mentioned in This Volume
Notes
References
Index
About the Author
Other Volumes in the Pacific Islands Monograph Series
Editor’s Note
Contents
Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. The Drama and Theater of Oceania: An Overview
2. Remembering Captain Cook: Restaging Early Cross-Cultural Encounters
3. Revisiting “Tino Rangatiratanga in Action”: Māori Theatrical Interpretations of the New Zealand Wars
4. Reenacting Hawai‘i’s History in the Plays of Victoria Nalani Kneubuhl
5. Killing the Monster: Reenvisioning the 1987 Coups on the Fiji Stage
Epilogue
Appendix Index of Pacific Plays Mentioned in This Volume
Notes
References
Index
About the Author
Other Volumes in the Pacific Islands Monograph Series
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