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Four Caribbean Women Playwrights
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.
The Melodramatic Thread
“This ambitious undertaking is concerned with the melodramatic form in theatre and film and its impact on French political culture.” —H-France Review In France, both political culture and theatrical performances have drawn upon melodrama. This “melodramatic thread” helped weave the country’s political life as it moved from monarchy to democracy. By examining the relationship between public ceremonies and theatrical performance, James R. Lehning sheds light on democratization in modern France. He explores the extent to which the dramatic forms were present in the public performance of political power. By concentrating on the Republic and the Revolution and on theatrical performanc...
Monsters and Revolutionaries
Through a study of Reunion, this volume shows how family narrative and discourses around miscegenation are central to colonial history.
Unexpected Voices in Imperial Parliaments
This collection follows the extraordinary careers of nine colonial subjects who won seats in high-level parliamentary institutions of the imperial powers that ruled over them. Revealing an unexplored dimension of the complex political organisation of modern empires, the essays show how early imperial constitutions allowed for the emergence of these unexpected members of parliament, asks how their presence was possible, and unveils the reactions across metropolitan circles, local communities and the voters who brought them to office. Unearthing the entanglements between political life in metropolitan and non-European societies, it illuminates the ambiguous zones, the margins for negotiation, ...
Beyond Fragmentation
In this book, leading scholars pull together some of the most recent research on the key themes of Caribbean history: slavery, the transition to freedom, colonialism, and decolonization. Although all parts of the Caribbean experienced these phases, the manner in which they did so differed significantly, in part because of their distinct imperial histories. Contemporary fragmentation and insularity have led to significant variations in the region's historiography. The contributors examine the divergent historiographical and methodological developments in the British, French, Spanish, and Dutch Caribbean. By addressing these four linguistic areas of the Caribbean, they aim to overcome the traditional differences imposed by language and in the process to explore hotly debated subjects and new directions in Caribbean scholarship.
Les traites et les esclavages
A la croisée d'éléments politiques (comme le débat sur la colonisation et la décolonisation) et de demandes sociales autour des questions coloniales et la mémoire de l'esclavage, en 2006, pour la première fois depuis plus de vingt ans, un débat universitaire et citoyen s'est engagé dans l'espace francophone, animé par le Centre International de Recherche sur les Esclavages. Placer l'histoire de l'esclavage au centre des discussions sur la mémoire, sur les différentes constructions étatiques et nationales ; déconstruire les généalogies multiples et complexes entre esclavage, représentations et identités diasporiques ; construire ces différents champs comme lieux scientifiques hords de toutes connotations morales de "repentance", voilà les principaux positionnements des chercheurs qui présentent ici leurs travaux. Un ouvrage co-écrit par Myriam Cottias, Elisabeth Cunin et Antonio de Almeida Mendes.
Zoo Studies
Do both the zoo and the mental hospital induce psychosis, as humans are treated as animals and animals are treated as humans? How have we looked at animals in the past, and how do we look at them today? How have zoos presented themselves, and their purpose, over time? In response to the emergence of environmental and animal studies, anthropologists, sociologists, philosophers, theorists, literature scholars, and historians around the world have begun to explore the significance of zoological parks, past and present. Zoo Studies considers the modern zoo from a range of approaches and disciplines, united in a desire to blur the boundaries between human and nonhuman animals. The volume begins w...
La Repubblica del dolore
“La politica oggi non sa proporre antidoti ai guasti di una memoria fondata sulla centralità delle vittime” La memoria pubblica è un “patto” in cui ci si accorda su cosa trattenere e cosa lasciar cadere degli eventi del nostro passato. Questi eventi sono i pilastri su cui fondare i programmi di studio per le scuole, i luoghi di memoria, i criteri espositivi dei musei, i calendari delle festività civili, le scelte sulla base delle quali si orientano tutti i sentimenti del passato che attraversano la nostra esistenza collettiva. I fondamenti di quel “patto” cambiano a seconda delle varie “fasi” che scandiscono il processo storico di una nazione. Vent’anni fa, la classe pol...
Beyond Bondage
Emancipation, manumission, and complex legalities surrounding slavery led to a number of women of color achieving a measure of freedom and prosperity from the 1600s through the 1800s. These black women held property in places like Suriname and New Orleans, headed households in Brazil, enjoyed religious freedom in Peru, and created new selves and new lives across the Caribbean. Beyond Bondage outlines the restricted spheres within which free women of color, by virtue of gender and racial restrictions, carved out many kinds of existences. Although their freedom--represented by respectability, opportunity, and the acquisition of property--always remained precarious, the essayists support the surprising conclusion that women of color often sought and obtained these advantages more successfully than their male counterparts.
Parmi les premiers Français en Martinique
La Compagnie des Indes et le cardinal de Richelieu s'intéressent très tôt au potentiel économique des îles nouvellement peuplées par les Français, de l'autre côté de l'océan. C'est pourquoi un religieux, jésuite, est parti faire une petite enquête pendant quelques mois, afin de faire un bref rapport sur ce dont il a été témoin. Succinct, mais n'omettant rien, le père Bouton passe tout et tout le monde en revue, ce qui peut nous permettre, à nous aujourd'hui, d'avoir une idée de ce que furent les îles autrefois, avant même qu'elles ne prennent leur essor.
