Balme Pacific Performances

Theatricality and Cross-Cultural Encounter in the South Seas
2007
ISBN: 978-0-230-59953-6
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 256 Seiten, eBook

Reihe: Studies in International Performance

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.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Balme, C.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

CHRISTOPHER B. BALME is Professor of Theatre Studies at the University of Munich, Germany. His publications include The Reformation of Comedy, Decolonizing the Stage: Theatrical Syncretism and Post-Colonial Drama and Fusion Cultures (editor), amongst others.