Pacific Performances: Theatricality and Cross-cultural Encounter in the South Seas (Studies in International Performance)

by Christopher B . Balme (Author)

• New

  Hardcover
  2006

  $154.65

  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.