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
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