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Remaking Pacific Pasts
Since the late 1960s, drama by Pacific Island playwrights has flourished throughout Oceania. Although many Pacific Island cultures have a broad range of highly developed indigenous performance forms—including oral narrative, clowning, ritual, dance, and song—scripted drama is a relatively recent phenomenon. Emerging during a period of region-wide decolonization and indigenous self-determination movements, most of these plays reassert Pacific cultural perspectives and performance techniques in ways that employ, adapt, and challenge the conventions and representations of Western theater. Drawing together discussions in theater and performance studies, historiography, Pacific studies, and p...
New Glass
A sampling of glass work by 196 artists from 28 countries.
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The Magnitude of Genocide
This book defines genocide, distinguishing it from mass murder, war crimes, and other atrocities; allows readers to grasp the magnitude of the crime of genocide across time and throughout human civilization; and facilitates an understanding of new and potential cases of genocide as they occur. Recently, the topic of intervention against genocide has received attention in global politics and the national political discourse of major countries. The challenges in confronting genocide and attempting to make a positive change are manifold. Simply establishing an agreement on the legal definition of genocide—and distinguishing it from genocidal massacres, war crimes, and other crimes against hum...
Pacific Performances
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.
Stereotype Paradiese
In der deutschen Literatur und Publizistik des 19. Jahrhunderts nimmt die Südsee als ersehntes, erforschtes und kolonial erobertes Paradies einen großen, bisher kaum untersuchten Raum ein. Gabriele Dürbeck weist von Chamissos Reisebericht von 1821 bis zur Populär- und Zeitschriftenliteratur um 1900 ein nahezu gleichbleibendes, bereits im 18. Jahrhundert etabliertes Repertoire an exotistischen und perhorreszierenden Stereotypen des Fremden nach. Dieses dient aber unterschiedlichen ästhetischen, wissenschaftspopularisierenden und politischen Darstellungsstrategien und -funktionen. Zivilisations-, Missionierungs- und Kolonialkritik greifen auf dieselben Stereotype und Topoi des Fremden zur...
New Glass Review
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