Think of a Garden - John Kneubuhl

Think of a Garden

And Other Plays

(Autor)

Buch | Hardcover
280 Seiten
1997
University of Hawai'i Press (Verlag)
978-0-8248-1773-2 (ISBN)
50,95 inkl. MwSt
By his own reckoning, John Kneubuhl was the world's greatest Swiss/Welsh/Samoan playwright. The son of a Samoan mother and an American father, Kneubuhl's multicultural heritage produced a distinctive artistic vision that formed the basis of his most powerful dramatic work. Born and raised in Samoa, Kneubuhl attended school in Honolulu and studied under Thornton Wilder at Yale. Returning to Hawai'i in the mid-1940s, Kneubuhl won acclaim as a playwright with the Honolulu Community Theater, then moved on to Los Angeles to write for television. Twenty years later he was back in Samoa, lecturing on Polynesian history and culture and writing plays, including the trilogy offered here. 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.

Think of a Garden makes the work of one of the Pacific's preeminent playwrights available for the first time to a wide audience of theatre enthusiasts, literature specialists, and others interested in Pacific themes.
Erscheint lt. Verlag 1.4.1997
Reihe/Serie Talanoa: contemporary Pacific literature
Verlagsort Honolulu, HI
Sprache englisch
Gewicht 1310 g
Themenwelt Literatur Lyrik / Dramatik Dramatik / Theater
ISBN-10 0-8248-1773-7 / 0824817737
ISBN-13 978-0-8248-1773-2 / 9780824817732
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