Jeffrey Leichman, Karine Bénac–giroux

Broschiertes Buch

Colonialism and Slavery in Performance

Theatre and the Eighteenth-Century French Caribbean

Herausgeber: Leichman, Jeffrey M; Bénac-Giroux, Karine

Beschreibung

This volume brings together new research on eighteenth-century performance in and about the slave-based societies of Saint-Domingue and the Francophone Caribbean for the English-language public. Together, these studies recast early modern France as a trans-Atlantic space whose theatrical culture serves as an index of the tensions of identity and politics resulting from imperial expansion, a legacy that continues to reverberate in contemporary Antillean artistic practice.

Autor

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 an artist-researcher, MCF-HDR in French literature and performing arts at the University of the Antilles (Martinique). Poet, author, self-taught painter, she has been creating and staging research-creation pieces with her students since 2006.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Voltaire Foundation in Association with Liverpool University Press
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. März 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 680g
• ISBN-13: 9781800348042
• ISBN-10: 1800348045
• Artikelnr.: 61188549