Theater Of The French Caribbean
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Theater Of The French Caribbean
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Author : Stephanie Berard
language : en
Publisher: Caribbean Studies Press
Release Date : 2013-11-07
Theater Of The French Caribbean written by Stephanie Berard and has been published by Caribbean Studies Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-11-07 with Caribbean drama (French) categories.
Paradoxes Of French Caribbean Theatre
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Author : Bridget Jones
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1997
Paradoxes Of French Caribbean Theatre written by Bridget Jones and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with Drama categories.
Staging Creolization
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Author : Emily Sahakian
language : en
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Release Date : 2017-07-20
Staging Creolization written by Emily Sahakian and has been published by University of Virginia Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-07-20 with Literary Criticism categories.
In Staging Creolization, Emily Sahakian examines seven plays by Ina Césaire, Maryse Condé, Gerty Dambury, and Simone Schwarz-Bart that premiered in the French Caribbean or in France in the 1980s and 1990s and soon thereafter traveled to the United States. Sahakian argues that these late-twentieth-century plays by French Caribbean women writers dramatize and enact creolization—the process of cultural transformation through mixing and conflict that occurred in the context of the legacies of slavery and colonialism. Sahakian here theorizes creolization as a performance-based process, dramatized by French Caribbean women’s plays and enacted through their international production and reception histories. The author contends that the syncretism of the plays is not a static, fixed creole aesthetics but rather a dynamic process of creolization in motion, informed by history and based in the African-derived principle that performance is a space of creativity and transformation that connects past, present, and future.
Colonialism And Slavery In Performance
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Author : Jeffrey M. Leichman
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021-03-08
Colonialism And Slavery In Performance written by Jeffrey M. Leichman and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-03-08 with categories.
Colonialism and Slavery in Performance brings together original archival research with recent critical perspectives to argue for the importance of theatrical culture to the understanding of the French Caribbean sugar colonies in the eighteenth century. Fifteen English-language essays from both established and emerging scholars apply insights and methodologies from performance studies and theatre history in order to propose a new understanding of Old Regime culture and identity as a trans-Atlantic continuum that includes the Antillean possessions whose slave labour provided enormous wealth to the metropole. Carefully documented studies of performances in Saint-Domingue, the most prosperous French colony, illustrate how the crucible of a brutally racialized colonial space gave rise to a new French identity by adapting many of the cherished theatrical traditions that colonists imported directly from the mainland, resulting in a Creole performance culture that reflected the strong influence of African practices brought to the islands by plantation slaves. Other essays focus on how European theatregoers reconciled the contradiction inherent in the eighteenth century's progressive embrace of human rights, with an increasing dependence on the economic spoils of slavery, thus illustrating how the stage served as a means to negotiate new tensions within "French" identity, in the metropole as well as in the colonies. In the final section of the volume, essays explore the enduring legacy of the Old Regime in contemporary Antillean stage culture, illustrating how performance traditions continue to structure the understanding of what it means to be French in France's former Atlantic slave colonies.
Colonialism And Slavery In Performance
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Author : Jeffrey Leichman
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021
Colonialism And Slavery In Performance written by Jeffrey Leichman and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021 with Slavery & abolition of slavery categories.
Colonialism and Slavery in Performance brings together original archival research with recent critical perspectives to argue for the importance of theatrical culture to the understanding of the French Caribbean sugar colonies in the eighteenth century. Fifteen English-language essays from both established and emerging scholars apply insights and methodologies from performance studies and theatre history in order to propose a new understanding of Old Regime culture and identity as a trans-Atlantic continuum that includes the Antillean possessions whose slave labour provided enormous wealth to the metropole. Carefully documented studies of performances in Saint-Domingue, the most prosperous French colony, illustrate how the crucible of a brutally racialized colonial space gave rise to a new French identity by adapting many of the cherished theatrical traditions that colonists imported directly from the mainland, resulting in a Creole performance culture that reflected the strong influence of African practices brought to the islands by plantation slaves. Other essays focus on how European theatregoers reconciled the contradiction inherent in the eighteenth century's progressive embrace of human rights, with an increasing dependence on the economic spoils of slavery, thus illustrating how the stage served as a means to negotiate new tensions within "French" identity, in the metropole as well as in the colonies. In the final section of the volume, essays explore the place of performance in representations of the Old Regime Antilles, from the Haitian literary diaspora to contemporary performing artists from Martinique and Guadeloupe, as the stage remains central to understanding history and identity in France's former Atlantic slave colonies.Featuring contributions from Sean Anderson, Karine Bénac-Giroux, Bernard Camier, Nadia Chonville, Laurent Dubois, Logan J. Connors, Béatrice Ferrier, Kaiama L. Glover, Jeffrey M. Leichman, Laurence Marie, Pascale Pellerin, Julia Prest, Catherine Ramond, Emily Sahakian, Pierre Saint-Amand, and Fredrik Thomasson. Jeffrey M. Leichman is Jacques Arnaud Associate Professor in the Department of French Studies at Louisiana State University, where his research and teaching focus on French theatrical literature and culture. He is also project director for the NEH-supported VESPACE project, an international digital humanities collaboration building an interactive VR model of an eighteenth-century Paris Fair theatre. Karine Bénac-Giroux is maîtresse de conférences at Université des Antilles. A specialist in questions of personal identity in 18th century comedy, she has opened a field of research on racial/gender stereotypes in literature and contemporary dance in the West Indies. She is a member of the steering team of the project Matrimoine-Afro-Américano-Caribéen, https://matrimoine.art, and has created several research-creation pieces.
Four Caribbean Women Playwrights
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Author : Vanessa Lee
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2021-10-18
Four Caribbean Women Playwrights written by Vanessa Lee and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-10-18 with Performing Arts categories.
Four Caribbean Women Playwrights aims to expand Caribbean and postcolonial studies beyond fiction and poetry by bringing to the fore innovative women playwrights from the French Caribbean: Ina Césaire, Maryse Condé, Gerty Dambury, Suzanne Dracius. Focussing on the significance of these women writers to the French and French Caribbean cultural scenes, the author illustrates how their work participates in global trends within postcolonial theatre. The playwrights discussed here all address socio-political issues, gender stereotypes, and the traumatic slave and colonial pasts of the Caribbean people. Investigating a range of plays from the 1980s to the early 2010s, including some works that have not yet featured in academic studies of Caribbean theatre, and applying theories of postcolonial theatre and local Caribbean theatre criticism, Four Caribbean Women Playwrights should appeal to scholars and students in the Humanities, and to all those interested in the postcolonial, the Caribbean, and contemporary theatre.
French Carribbean Women S Theatre
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Author : Emily Sahakian
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2011
French Carribbean Women S Theatre written by Emily Sahakian and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with categories.
This dissertation examines the cultural work done by French Caribbean women's theatre of the 1980s and 1990s. Through a focus on traumatic memories of slavery, l study three French Caribbean women dramatists, investigating three noteworthy plays and the staging and reception of those plays at Ubu Repertory Theater of New York. The study begins with a theoretical introduction, followed by a second chapter on slavery and its remembrance in metropolitan France and the overseas departments. The three central chapters investigate the theatres of Ina Césaire, Maryse Condé, and Gerty Dambury, as well as the production and reception of their plays at Ubu. In a first section of each chapter, l deploy textual analysis to illuminate how the plays portray links between the past and the present in order to establish and transform French Caribbean women's memory of slavery, which was largely unconscious and secret at the end of the twentieth century. In a second part of each chapter, l investigate the translation of trauma realized by Ubu artists and spectators and the conflicts generated by transcultural performances of French Caribbean women's trauma.
The Cambridge Guide To African And Caribbean Theatre
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Author : Martin Banham
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1994-08-04
The Cambridge Guide To African And Caribbean Theatre written by Martin Banham and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994-08-04 with Drama categories.
Comprehensive alphabetical guide to theatre in Africa and the Caribbean: national essays and entries on countries and performers.
From Plantation To Paradise
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Author : David M. Powers
language : en
Publisher: Michigan State University Press
Release Date : 2014-05-01
From Plantation To Paradise written by David M. Powers and has been published by Michigan State University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-05-01 with History categories.
In 1764 the first printing press was established in the French Caribbean colonies, launching the official documentation of operas and plays performed there, and marking the inauguration of the first theatre in the colonies. A rigorous study of pre–French Revolution performance practices in Guadeloupe, Martinique, and Saint-Domingue (now Haiti), Powers’s book examines the elaborate system of social casting in these colonies; the environments in which nonwhite artists emerged; and both negative and positive contributions of the Catholic Church and the military to operas and concerts produced in the colonies. The author also explores the level of participation of nonwhites in these productions, as well as theatre architecture, décor, repertoire, seating arrangements, and types of audiences. The status of nonwhite artists in colonial society; the range of operas in which they performed; their accomplishments, praise, criticism; and the use of créole texts and white actors/singers à visage noirs (with blackened faces) present a clear picture of French operatic culture in these colonies. Approaching the French Revolution, the study concludes with an examination of the ways in which colonial opera was affected by slave uprisings, the French Revolution, the emergence of “patriotic theatres,” and their role in fostering support for the king, as well as the impact on subsequent operas produced in the colonies and in the United States.
New Francophone African And Caribbean Theatres
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Author : John Conteh-Morgan
language : en
Publisher: African Expressive Cultures
Release Date : 2010-08-03
New Francophone African And Caribbean Theatres written by John Conteh-Morgan and has been published by African Expressive Cultures this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-08-03 with Literary Criticism categories.
Staging a new politics of performance in the African diaspora.