Pacific performances : theatricality and cross-cultural encounter in the South Seas / Christopher B. Balme

By:

Balme, Christopher B

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Studies in international performancePublication details: Basingstoke : Palgrave MacMillan, cop. 2007Description: xiv, 256 p. : il. ; 22 cmISBN:

9781403985989

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Contents:

Conté: Introduction: Definitions -- Mimetic capital and exotic commodities -- Performance in Paradise -- Fishing grounds -- The passage -- 1. Pacific overtures: trumpets, beaches and women: Trumpets and hornpipes -- Landings and beaches -- Shocking spectacles -- Venus observ'd -- Wanton dancing -- Becoming the other -- 2. Staged authenticity: The South Seas and European theatre, 1785-1830: Spectacles of emotion: Cook o sia Gl'inglesi in Othaiti -- Restaging first encounters: La Mort du capitaine Cook -- La Perouse and the imaginary Pacific -- A royal revue: their sandwich Majesties -- 3. Comedians and crusaders: anti-theatrical prejudice in the South Seas: Plato's legacy -- Arioi te fenua: comedians of the land -- Ocular proof: baptisms and idols -- Plays and heroes -- 4. Dressing the hula and taming the haka: performing identity in Hawai'i and New Zealand: Performative metonymy -- Reinventing the hula -- Hula kahiko (ancient hula) -- Iconography of the hula -- Taming the haka -- 5. Kindred spirits: spectacles of Samoa in Wilhelminian Germany: A place in the sun -- Anthropological anxieties -- Samoan troupes and the politics of the colonial gaze -- 'Impressing the natives': colonial ceremony in Samoa -- Tenth anniversary celebrations -- Mixing ceremonies -- 6. Birds of Paradise: American-Pacific dramas of displacement: The bird of paradise -- Rain -- Pacific and Oriental lines: South Pacific -- 7. 'As You Always Imagined It': The Pacific as tourist spectacle: The Polynesian cultural center and tourist performance -- Staging Polynesian culture(s) -- Mimicry and resisting the tourist gaze -- Framing authenticity -- 8. Translocations and transgressions: the postcolonial Pacific: Pacific diasporas -- The play of memory -- Ritual reincorporation -- The Pacific is burning -- Dystopic paradise

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Item type	Current library	Home library	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Llibre	Biblioteca Barcelona	Biblioteca Barcelona BCN Lliure Accés	792(9) BAL (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		1900070914

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