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Colonialism and Slavery in Performance

Colonialism and Slavery in Performance

Theatre and the Eighteenth-Century French Caribbean

by Jeffrey M. Leichman and Karine Bénac-Giroux
Paperback
Publication Date: 01/04/2021

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Colonialism and Slavery in Performance brings together original archival research with recent critical perspectives to argue for the importance of theatrical culture to the understanding of the French Caribbean sugar colonies in the eighteenth century. Fifteen English-language essays from both established and emerging scholars apply insights and methodologies from performance studies and theatre history in order to propose a new understanding of Old Regime culture and identity as a trans-Atlantic continuum that includes the Antillean possessions whose slave labour provided enormous wealth to the metropole.

Carefully documented studies of performances in Saint-Domingue, the most prosperous French colony, illustrate how the crucible of a brutally racialized colonial space gave rise to a new French identity by adapting many of the cherished theatrical traditions that colonists imported directly from the mainland, resulting in a Creole performance culture that reflected the strong influence of African practices brought to the islands by plantation slaves. Other essays focus on how European theatregoers reconciled the contradiction inherent in the eighteenth century's progressive embrace of human rights, with an increasing dependence on the economic spoils of slavery, thus illustrating how the stage served as a means to negotiate new tensions within "French" identity, in the metropole as well as in the colonies. In the final section of the volume, essays explore the enduring legacy of the Old Regime in contemporary Antillean stage culture, illustrating how performance traditions continue to
structure the understanding of what it means to be French in France's former Atlantic slave colonies.

ISBN:
9781800348042
9781800348042
Category:
Theatre studies
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
01-04-2021
Language:
English
Publisher:
Liverpool University Press
Country of origin:
United Kingdom
Dimensions (mm):
154.94x231.14x25.4mm

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