Overview
Provides a significant addition to the corpus of works in English on French-language postcolonial women's theatre
Explores how playwrights address socio-political issues and the painful slave and colonial pasts of the Caribbean people
Investigates a wide range of plays, including works that have not yet featured in academic studies of Caribbean theatre
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
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.
Reviews
'Vanessa Lee’s enthralling and illuminating research explores the theatrical work of four key French Caribbean women artists: Ina Césaire, Maryse Condé, Gerty Dambury and Suzanne Dracius. The book connects these important female figures of Caribbean fiction and drama, and their diverse theatre and performance work, into a thoughtfully organised and richly textured conversation that demonstrates common historical and cultural concerns in the writers’ performance oeuvre, including the kaleidoscopic complexities of historic and gendered subjectivities in the French Caribbean islands brutally forged and fragmented by slavery and its aftermath, transgenerational memory, and the deconstruction of stereotypical race- and class-based classifications and spatial arrangements.'
- Charlotte Hammond, Lecturer in French Studies, Cardiff University, UK.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Vanessa Lee is an academic and playwright. She was trained at Trinity College Dublin, the École Normale Supérieure de Lyon and the University of Oxford, and has held postdoctoral positions at Linnaeus University and St Andrews University. She has published widely on theatre, gender, and issues of diversity in casting.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Four Caribbean Women Playwrights
Book Subtitle: Ina Césaire, Maryse Condé, Gerty Dambury and Suzanne Dracius
Authors: Vanessa Lee
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-83364-0
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-83363-3Published: 19 October 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-83366-4Published: 20 October 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-83364-0Published: 18 October 2021
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 187
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Theatre and Performance Studies, Contemporary Theatre, Global/International Theatre and Performance, Latin American/Caribbean Literature