TY  - BOOK
AU  - Balme,Christopher B.
TI  - Pacific performances: theatricality and cross-cultural encounter in the South Seas 
T2  - Studies in international performance
SN  - 9781403985989
PY  - 2007///
CY  - Basingstoke
PB  - Palgrave MacMillan
KW  - Teatre
KW  - Pacífic, Illes del
KW  - Aspectes socials
KW  - Oceania
KW  - En la literatura
N1  - Bibliografia. Índex; 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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