Pacific Performances : Theatricality and Cross-Cultural Encounter in the South Seas

Name: Pacific Performances
Brand: Palgrave USA
SKU: 9781403985989
Price: 16200 KES
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ISBN: 9781403985989

by C. Balme

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Format Hardback

Book Series Studies in International Performance

ISBN-10 1403985987

ISBN-13 9781403985989

Publisher Palgrave USA

Imprint Palgrave Macmillan

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Nov 14th, 2006

Print length 256 Pages

Product Classification: Theatre studies Theatre studies Plays, playscripts Plays, playscripts, drama

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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.

Incorporating the very latest approaches to performance studies, this new study by Christopher Balme explores the history of cross-cultural performative encounters in the Pacific from the eighteenth-century to the present. Using the concept of theatricality, it examines both the performance cultures of Pacific peoples as they negotiated the colonial situation and Western theatrical representations. The material investigated ranges from eighteenth-century pantomimes to Broadway plays and musicals; ethnographic spectacles and colonial ceremonies rub shoulders with contemporary tourist theme parks and Samoan stand-up comedy.

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