- Bib ID:
- 1531168
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Kneubuhl, John
- Description:
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- Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press, c1997
- viii, 268 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
- ISBN:
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- 0824818148 (acid-free paper) (paperback)
- 0824817737 (acid-free paper)
- Series:
- Talanoa.
- Summary:
-
Unlike much of Kneubuhl's earlier work, these plays are touchingly personal in their exploration of alienation and cultural identity. Think of a Garden, the first play of the trilogy and the last written before the playwright's death in 1992, has been called the most Samoan of Kneubuhl's plays - a candid look at the writer's bicultural upbringing that artfully weaves together family memory, history, and mysticism. In Mele Kanikau: A Pageant, Kneubuhl once again uses the supernatural to comment on the fragile state of a divided culture - that of Hawaiians. In A Play: A Play, the most structurally complex of the plays and Kneubuhl's most successful attempt at comedy, what begins as a Cowardesque farce ends in an unsettling portrayal of a man struggling to come to terms with his Hawaiian heritage.
- Full contents:
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- Think of a Garden
- Mele Kanikau: A Pageant
- A Play: A Play
- Afterword: A Portrait of John Kneububl / Jackie Pualani Johnson
- Production Credits.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Subject:
- Hawaii -- Drama
- Copyright:
-
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- Published status:
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- Publication date:
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