Marie Vieux Chauvet’s Theatres

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.

Foreword IX

 Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert

Acknowledgements Xi

Notes on Contributors Xiii

List of Illustrations Xix

Introduction



Part 1: Gestures of Black and Brown Subjectivities

 1 Perceiving the Relationships in Nature: An Ecofeminist Reading of La Légende des Fleurs

 Régine Michelle Jean-Charles

 2 Re-staging the Haitian Revolution Narrative: The Tragic Mulatta’s Dissonance and Eziliphonics in Dance on the Volcano

 Cae Joseph-Massena

 3 Dirty Love: Marie Chauvet, Guy Régis Jr, and Enfleshed Performances of Revolting Subjects

 Christian Flaugh



Part 2: Theatres and Aesthetics: Crossings of Her Revolt

 4 The Carnivalesque Theatre of Revolt in Marie Vieux-Chauvet’s Folie

 Charlee M. Redman Bezilla

 5 La Danse sur le volcan: Marie Chauvet Tells "Her-Story" of Theatre in Saint-Domingue at the Dawn of the Revolution

 Stéphanie Bérard


  Interlude: “She was a Legba”

 Anthony Phelps



Part 3: Actionable Thought, Policing Acts

 6 “To Live with Her Revolt”: Dance on the Volcano’s Diegetic Pivot

 Jeremy Matthew Glick

 7 The Crime Narrative as Social Commentary: Justice and Power in Marie Chauvet’s “Birds of Prey” and Lucha Corpi’s Eulogy for a Brown Angel

 Gabrielle Gallo

 8 Spectacle and Surveillance in Marie Vieux-Chauvet’s Colère

 Ioana Pribiag



Part 4: Revolt’s Theatrical Returns

 9 Theatricalizing Amour, Colère, et Folie: José Pliya “Adapts” and “Adjusts” Marie Vieux Chauvet

 Judith G. Miller

 10 Love: Translation of José Pliya’s Amour, as Adapted from Marie Vieux-Chauvet’s Amour, with Notes from the Translator

 Lena Taub Robles

 11 “To Fire”: A Process of Dramatically Adapting Depictions of Eighteenth-Century Haiti

 Nehanda Loiseau

 12 “Bloodied Flower”: On Translating the Burden of the Floral in Marie Chauvet’s La Légende des Fleurs

 Alessandra Benedicty-Kokken


 After-Words: A Dialogue with Kaiama L. Glover and Guy Régis Jr