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.

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'What the book provides is a superb way to begin to understand how rich the study of theatre and performance in the South Pacific may come to be...an extraordinarily valuable wide-angle glimpse of a diverse field.' - Sharon Mazer, Theatre Journal

'While Balme shines in his reading of the postcolonial politics that frame this type of theatrical setting, it is his larger argument about the performativity of cultural encounters...that constitutes his larger contribution to Pacific scholarship.' - Jane Desmond, The Contemporary Pacific

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CHRISTOPHER B. BALME is Professor of Theatre Studies at the University of Munich, Germany. His publications include The Reformation of Comedy, Decolonizing the Stage: Theatrical Syncretism and Post-Colonial Drama and Fusion Cultures (editor), amongst others.

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Book Title: Pacific Performances
Book Subtitle: Theatricality and Cross-Cultural Encounter in the South Seas
Authors: Christopher B. Balme
Series Title: Studies in International Performance
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230599536
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Literature & Performing Arts Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4039-8598-9Published: 14 November 2006
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-54051-8Published: 14 November 2006
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-59953-6Published: 14 November 2006
Series ISSN: 2947-4949
Series E-ISSN: 2947-4957
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 256
Number of Illustrations: 24 b/w illustrations
Topics: Theatre and Performance Studies, Theatre History, Literature, general

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