Four caribbean women playwrights : Ina Césaire, Maryse Condé, Gerty Dambury and Suzanne Dracius 1st ed.

Author

• Lee, Vanessa

Additional Author(s)

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Publisher

Cham, Switzerland : Springer International Publishing, 2021

Language

English

ISBN

9783030833640

Series

Subject(s)

• DAMBURY, GERTY
• DRACIUS, SUZANNE
• POSTCOLONIALISM AND THEATER

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Abstract

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.

Physical Dimension

Number of Page(s)

1 online resource (x, 187 p.)

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Summary / Review / Table of Content

Introduction
Theatre matters : situating the works of Ina Césaire, Maryse Condé, Gerty Dambury, and Suzanne Dracius
The French Caribbean woman artist on stage
Revolutionary heroines, insurgent storytellers : staging French Caribbean history
The past as personal
Conclusion

Exemplar(s)

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1.	00651/22	842.91409928709729 Lee F	Online !	Available