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

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 8
List of Illustrations......Page 10
Series Editors\' Preface......Page 12
Preface......Page 13
Introduction......Page 16
Definitions......Page 17
Mimetic capital and exotic commodities......Page 22
Performance in Paradise......Page 24
Fishing grounds......Page 27
The passage......Page 28
1 Pacific Overtures: Trumpets, Beaches and Women......Page 34
Trumpets and hornpipes......Page 35
Landings and beaches......Page 39
Shocking spectacles......Page 44
Venus observ\'d......Page 51
Wanton dancing......Page 53
Becoming the other......Page 57
2 Staged Authenticity: The South Seas and European Theatre, 1785–1830......Page 62
Spectacles of emotion: Cook o sia Gl\'inglesi in Othaiti......Page 63
Restaging first encounters: La Mort du Capitaine Cook......Page 71
La Perouse and the imaginary Pacific......Page 76
A royal revue: their Sandwich Majesties......Page 82
3 Comedians and Crusaders: Anti-Theatrical Prejudice in the South Seas......Page 89
Plato\'s legacy......Page 91
Arioi te fenua: comedians of the land......Page 94
Ocular proof: baptisms and idols......Page 100
Plays and heroes......Page 104
4 Dressing the Hula and Taming the Haka: Performing Identity in Hawai\'i and New Zealand......Page 110
Performative metonymy......Page 111
Reinventing the hula......Page 113
Hula kahiko (ancient hula)......Page 117
Iconography of the hula......Page 119
Taming the haka......Page 130
5 Kindred Spirits: Spectacles of Samoa in Wilhelminian Germany......Page 137
A place in the sun......Page 138
Anthropological anxieties......Page 141
Samoan troupes and the politics of the colonial gaze......Page 144
\'Impressing the natives\': colonial ceremony in Samoa......Page 149
Tenth anniversary celebrations......Page 154
Mixing ceremonies......Page 157
6 Birds of Paradise: American-Pacific Dramas of Displacement......Page 161
The Bird of Paradise......Page 163
Rain......Page 170
Pacific and Oriental lines: South Pacific......Page 179
7 \'As You Always Imagined It\': The Pacific as Tourist Spectacle......Page 189
The Polynesian Cultural Center and tourist performance......Page 192
Staging Polynesian culture(s)......Page 194
Mimicry and resisting the tourist gaze......Page 196
Framing authenticity......Page 201
8 Translocations and Transgressions: The Postcolonial Pacific......Page 206
Pacific diasporas......Page 207
The play of memory......Page 209
Ritual reincorporation......Page 211
The Pacific is burning......Page 215
Dystopic paradise......Page 228
Notes......Page 233
Selected Bibliography......Page 260
Index......Page 266