Remaking Pacific Pasts: History, Memory, and Identity in Contemporary Theater from Oceania

by Diana Looser

Since the late 1960s, drama by Pacific Island playwrights has flourished throughout Oceania. Although many Pacific Island cultures have a broad range of highly developed indigenous performance forms--including oral narrative, clowning, ritual, dance, and song--scripted drama is a relatively recent phenomenon. Emerging during a period of region-wide decolonization and indigenous self-determination movements, most of these plays reassert Pacific...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0824839765
• ISBN13: 9780824839765
• Release Date: October 2014
• Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
• Length: 324 Pages
• Weight: 1.49 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.2"