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Marie Vieux Chauvetâs Theatres
Thought, Form, and Performance of Revolt
Series: - Caribbean Series, Volume: 35
Marie Vieux Chauvetâs 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 â like many free-minded women of the Caribbean and the African diaspora â 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 Chauvetâs 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 Haitiâs greatest writers.
â 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 Chauvetâs depictions of revolt.
â Soyica Diggs Colbert, Professor of African American Studies and Theater & Performance Studies, Georgetown University. Author of Black Movements: Performance and Cultural Politics
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 Chauvetâs 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 Haitiâs greatest writers.
â 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 Chauvetâs depictions of revolt.
â Soyica Diggs Colbert, Professor of African American Studies and Theater & Performance Studies, Georgetown University. Author of Black Movements: Performance and Cultural Politics
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.
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.
Foreword IX
âLizabeth Paravisini-Gebert
AcknowledgementsXi
Notes on ContributorsXiii
List of IllustrationsXix
Introduction
â1âPerceiving the Relationships in Nature: An Ecofeminist Reading of La Légende des Fleurs
âRégine Michelle Jean-Charles
â2âRe-staging the Haitian Revolution Narrative: The Tragic Mulattaâs Dissonance and Eziliphonics in Dance on the Volcano
âCae Joseph-Massena
â3âDirty Love: Marie Chauvet, Guy Régis Jr, and Enfleshed Performances of Revolting Subjects
âChristian Flaugh
â4âThe Carnivalesque Theatre of Revolt in Marie Vieux-Chauvetâs Folie
âCharlee M. Redman Bezilla
â5âLa Danse sur le volcan: Marie Chauvet Tells "Her-Story" of Theatre in Saint-Domingue at the Dawn of the Revolution
âStéphanie Bérard
ââInterlude: âShe was a Legbaâ
âAnthony Phelps
â6ââTo Live with Her Revoltâ: Dance on the Volcanoâs Diegetic Pivot
âJeremy Matthew Glick
â7âThe Crime Narrative as Social Commentary: Justice and Power in Marie Chauvetâs âBirds of Preyâ and Lucha Corpiâs Eulogy for a Brown Angel
âGabrielle Gallo
â8âSpectacle and Surveillance in Marie Vieux-Chauvetâs Colère
âIoana Pribiag
â9âTheatricalizing Amour, Colère, et Folie: José Pliya âAdaptsâ and âAdjustsâ Marie Vieux Chauvet
âJudith G. Miller
â10âLove: Translation of José Pliyaâs Amour, as Adapted from Marie Vieux-Chauvetâs Amour, with Notes from the Translator
âLena Taub Robles
â11ââTo Fireâ: A Process of Dramatically Adapting Depictions of Eighteenth-Century Haiti
âNehanda Loiseau
â12ââBloodied Flowerâ: On Translating the Burden of the Floral in Marie Chauvetâs La Légende des Fleurs
âAlessandra Benedicty-Kokken
âAfter-Words: A Dialogue with Kaiama L. Glover and Guy Régis Jr
âLizabeth Paravisini-Gebert
Acknowledgements
Notes on Contributors
List of Illustrations
Introduction
Part 1: Gestures of Black and Brown Subjectivities
â1âPerceiving the Relationships in Nature: An Ecofeminist Reading of La Légende des Fleurs
âRégine Michelle Jean-Charles
â2âRe-staging the Haitian Revolution Narrative: The Tragic Mulattaâs Dissonance and Eziliphonics in Dance on the Volcano
âCae Joseph-Massena
â3âDirty Love: Marie Chauvet, Guy Régis Jr, and Enfleshed Performances of Revolting Subjects
âChristian Flaugh
Part 2: Theatres and Aesthetics: Crossings of Her Revolt
â4âThe Carnivalesque Theatre of Revolt in Marie Vieux-Chauvetâs Folie
âCharlee M. Redman Bezilla
â5âLa Danse sur le volcan: Marie Chauvet Tells "Her-Story" of Theatre in Saint-Domingue at the Dawn of the Revolution
âStéphanie Bérard
ââInterlude: âShe was a Legbaâ
âAnthony Phelps
Part 3: Actionable Thought, Policing Acts
â6ââTo Live with Her Revoltâ: Dance on the Volcanoâs Diegetic Pivot
âJeremy Matthew Glick
â7âThe Crime Narrative as Social Commentary: Justice and Power in Marie Chauvetâs âBirds of Preyâ and Lucha Corpiâs Eulogy for a Brown Angel
âGabrielle Gallo
â8âSpectacle and Surveillance in Marie Vieux-Chauvetâs Colère
âIoana Pribiag
Part 4: Revoltâs Theatrical Returns
â9âTheatricalizing Amour, Colère, et Folie: José Pliya âAdaptsâ and âAdjustsâ Marie Vieux Chauvet
âJudith G. Miller
â10âLove: Translation of José Pliyaâs Amour, as Adapted from Marie Vieux-Chauvetâs Amour, with Notes from the Translator
âLena Taub Robles
â11ââTo Fireâ: A Process of Dramatically Adapting Depictions of Eighteenth-Century Haiti
âNehanda Loiseau
â12ââBloodied Flowerâ: On Translating the Burden of the Floral in Marie Chauvetâs La Légende des Fleurs
âAlessandra Benedicty-Kokken
âAfter-Words: A Dialogue with Kaiama L. Glover and Guy Régis Jr
All interested in the thought and praxis of theatre, performance, and Postcolonial Global South Feminisms in Marie Vieux Chauvetâs work; anyone studying Haitian, Caribbean, and African diaspora theatre and prose.