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: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0824897854
• ISBN13: 9780824897857
• Release Date: December 2023
• Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.23 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.1"