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

Since the late 1960s, drama by Pacific Island playwrights has flourished throughout Oceania. Drawing together discussions in theatre and performance studies, historiography, Pacific studies, and postcolonial studies, Remaking Pacific Pasts offers the first full-length comparative study of this dynamic and expanding body of work.

About the author

Diana Looser is associate professor of theater and performance studies at Stanford University.

Summary

Since the late 1960s, drama by Pacific Island playwrights has flourished throughout Oceania. Drawing together discussions in theatre and performance studies, historiography, Pacific studies, and postcolonial studies, Remaking Pacific Pasts offers the first full-length comparative study of this dynamic and expanding body of work.

Product details

• Authors: Diana Looser
• Publisher: University of hawaii press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2014
• EAN: 9780824839765
• ISBN: 978-0-8248-3976-5
• No. of pages: 305
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 235 mm x 32 mm
• Series: Pacific Islands Monograph; Pacific Islands Monograph Series; Pacific Islands Monograph
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies