Marie Vieux Chauvet's Theatres: Thought, Form, and Performance of Revolt

Erscheinungsjahr 2018
ISBN: 978-90-04-38639-6
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 35, 250 Seiten, Format (B × H): 163 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 499 g

Reihe: Caribbean

Marie Vieux Chauvet’s Theatres: Thought, Form, and Performance of Revolt at once reflects and acts upon the praxis of theatre that inspired Haitian writer Marie Vieux Chauvet, while at the same time provides incisively new cultural studies readings about revolt in her theatre and prose. Chauvet – like many free-minded women of the Caribbean and the African diaspora – was banned from the public sphere, leaving her work largely ignored for decades. Following on a renewed interest in Chauvet, this collection makes essential contributions to Africana Studies, Theatre Studies, Performance Studies, Postcolonial Studies, and Global South Feminisms.

Contributors are: Alessandra Benedicty-Kokken, Stéphanie Bérard, Christian Flaugh, Gabrielle Gallo, Jeremy Matthew Glick, Kaiama L. Glover, Régine Michelle Jean-Charles, Cae Joseph-Massena, Nehanda Loiseau, Judith G. Miller, Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert, Anthony Phelps, Ioana Pribiag, Charlee M. Redman Bezilla, Guy Régis Jr, and Lena Taub Robles.

This collection is a beautiful gathering of voices exploring Chauvet’s theatrical work, along with the role of theatre in her novels. The richly textured and evocatively written essays offer many new and necessary insights into the work of one of Haiti’s greatest writers.

— Laurent Dubois, Marcello Lotti Professor of Romance Studies and History, Duke University. Author of Haiti: The Aftershocks of History

This collection draws necessary critical attention to how theatre and performance animate the work of a key figure in Caribbean fiction and drama. Using an innovative scholarly and artistic approach, the collection incorporates leading and new voices in Haitian studies and Francophone studies on Chauvet’s depictions of revolt.

— Soyica Diggs Colbert, Professor of African American Studies and Theater & Performance Studies, Georgetown University. Author of Black Movements: Performance and Cultural Politics

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Flaugh, Christian

Taub Robles, Lena

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Theaterwissenschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Dramen und Dramatiker
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Romanische Literaturen Französische Literatur Postkoloniale Literaturen in Französisch, Französische Literatur außerhalb Europas
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Einzelne Autoren: Monographien & Biographien

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword IX

Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert

Acknowledgements Xi

Notes on Contributors Xiii

List of Illustrations Xix

Introduction

Part 1: Gestures of Black and Brown Subjectivities

1 Perceiving the Relationships in Nature: An Ecofeminist Reading of La Légende des Fleurs

Régine Michelle Jean-Charles

2 Re-staging the Haitian Revolution Narrative: The Tragic Mulatta’s Dissonance and Eziliphonics in Dance on the Volcano

Cae Joseph-Massena

3 Dirty Love: Marie Chauvet, Guy Régis Jr, and Enfleshed Performances of Revolting Subjects

Christian Flaugh

Part 2: Theatres and Aesthetics: Crossings of Her Revolt

4 The Carnivalesque Theatre of Revolt in Marie Vieux-Chauvet’s Folie

Charlee M. Redman Bezilla

5 La Danse sur le volcan: Marie Chauvet Tells "Her-Story" of Theatre in Saint-Domingue at the Dawn of the Revolution

Stéphanie Bérard

Interlude: “She was a Legba”

Anthony Phelps

Part 3: Actionable Thought, Policing Acts

6 “To Live with Her Revolt”: Dance on the Volcano’s Diegetic Pivot

Jeremy Matthew Glick

7 The Crime Narrative as Social Commentary: Justice and Power in Marie Chauvet’s “Birds of Prey” and Lucha Corpi’s Eulogy for a Brown Angel

Gabrielle Gallo

8 Spectacle and Surveillance in Marie Vieux-Chauvet’s Colère

Ioana Pribiag

Part 4: Revolt’s Theatrical Returns

9 Theatricalizing Amour, Colère, et Folie: José Pliya “Adapts” and “Adjusts” Marie Vieux Chauvet

Judith G. Miller

10 Love: Translation of José Pliya’s Amour, as Adapted from Marie Vieux-Chauvet’s Amour, with Notes from the Translator

Lena Taub Robles

11 “To Fire”: A Process of Dramatically Adapting Depictions of Eighteenth-Century Haiti

Nehanda Loiseau

12 “Bloodied Flower”: On Translating the Burden of the Floral in Marie Chauvet’s La Légende des Fleurs

Alessandra Benedicty-Kokken

After-Words: A Dialogue with Kaiama L. Glover and Guy Régis Jr

Über Autor(innen)

Christian Flaugh, Ph.D. (2005), is Associate Professor of French, Africana, and Caribbean Studies, and Performance Research Workshop co-organizer at SUNY-University at Buffalo. Author of Operation Freak: Narrative, Identity, and the Spectrum of Bodily Abilities (McGill-Queen's University Press, 2012), he also has numerous published articles.

Lena Taub Robles, Ph.D. (2016), is Assistant Professor of French at California State University, Bakersfield, where she teaches French and Caribbean literature. She has published on Francophone Caribbean authors and has translated scholarly essays from French and Spanish into English.