Pacific performances: theatricality and cross-cultural encounter in the South Seas
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. The material investigated ranges from early travel accounts to contemporary plays, from Eighteenth century pantomimes and opera to Broadway plays and musicals; Nineteenth-century eth…
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- Full title :Pacific performances : theatricality and cross-cultural encounter in the South Seas / Christopher B. Balme.
Summary
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. The material investigated ranges from early travel accounts to contemporary plays, from Eighteenth century pantomimes and opera to Broadway plays and musicals; Nineteenth-century ethnographic spectacles and colonial ceremonies rub shoulders with contemporary tourist theme parks and avant-garde performance.
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- Publication Date:2007.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Palgrave Macmillan
- Place of Publication:Houndmills, Basingstoke
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2007.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (xiv, 256 pages) : : illustrations
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780230599536, 0230599532
- DOI:10.1057/9780230599536
- oclc:ocn681911200
- LC Classification:PN3030
- Dewey Decimal:792.0995
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 -- €
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