Remaking Pacific Pasts: History, Memory, and Identity in Contemporary Theater from Oceania
Remaking Pacific Pasts: History, Memory, and Identity in Contemporary Theater from Oceania
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Abstract
Remaking Pacific Pasts offers the first full-length comparative study of recent drama and theatre in Oceania. It opens with a general introduction to the field of Pacific Islands theatre produced since the late 1960s, covering key works from Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands and Vanuatu, Fiji, Aotearoa/New Zealand, Samoa, Niue, the Cook Islands, Hawai‘i, Guam, New Caledonia, and Tahiti. The following sections explore selected plays from Hawai‘i, Aotearoa/New Zealand, New Caledonia, and Fiji that critically engage aspects of colonial and postcolonial Pacific histories. The book draws together discussions in theatre and performance studies, historiography, and Pacific studies to examine how Pacific playwrights have used the medium of theatrical performance to interrogate and revise repressive or marginalizing models of historical understanding developed through Western colonialism or exclusionary indigenous nationalisms, and to address crucial issues of identity, genealogy, representation, political parity, and social unity. This major study emphasizes the contribution of artistic production to social and political life in the contemporary Pacific, showing how local play production has worked to facilitate processes of creative nation building and the construction of modern regional imaginaries. The book closes with an appendix that catalogs over 200 Pacific Islands plays mentioned in the volume.
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Front Matter
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Introduction
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The Drama and Theater of Oceania: An Overview
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Remembering Captain Cook: Restaging Early Cross-Cultural Encounters
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Revisiting “Tino Rangatiratanga in Action”: Māori Theatrical Interpretations of the New Zealand Wars
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Reenacting Hawai‘i’s History in the Plays of Victoria Nalani Kneubuhl
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Killing the Monster: Reenvisioning the 1987 Coups on the Fiji Stage
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Epilogue
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End Matter
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