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2. Blackface Cuba, 1840-1895
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Lane,Jill (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Publication Date:
- 2005
- Published:
- Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 274 p, "A model for theatre scholarship on racial impersonation."—Theatre Journal Blackface Cuba, 1840-1895 offers a critical history of the relation between racial impersonation, national sentiment, and the emergence of an anticolonial public sphere in nineteenth-century Cuba. Through a study of Cuba's vernacular theatre, the teatro bufo, and of related forms of music, dance, and literature, Lane argues that blackface performance was a primary site for the development of mestizaje, Cuba's racialized national ideology, in which African and Cuban become simultaneously mutually exclusive and mutually formative." (Doris Sommer, Harvard University)
3. Bufo y nación: interpelaciones desde el presente
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Martiatu,Inés María (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Language:
- Spanish
- Publication Date:
- 2008
- Published:
- La Habana, Cuba: Letras Cubanas
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 311 p.
4. French Caribbean Women's Theatre: Trauma, Slavery, and Transcultural Performance
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Sahakian,Emily (Author)
- Format:
- Dissertation/Thesis
- Publication Date:
- 2011
- Published:
- Illinois: Northwestern University
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- ProQuest Dissertations and Theses
- Notes:
- 287 p., With a focus on cultural memory, this dissertation investigates French Caribbean women's plays and their performance at Ubu Repertory Theater, a pioneering French-American theatre in New York. After a theoretical introduction and a historical chapter investigating slavery and its remembrance in the Francophone Caribbean, each chapter is divided into two sections, the first examining the play, and the second its production at Ubu. The author relies on theories of collective memory and cultural trauma to read Ina Césaire's Fire's Daughters, Maryse Condé's The Tropical Breeze Hotel, and Gerty Dambury's Crosscurrents as plays that dramatize a link between the past (the Middle Passage, slavery, and sexual relations between enslaved women and white men) and present-day behaviors, attitudes, and pain. It is argued that these plays work to revise problematic practices of remembrance in France and the Antilles. These practices dissociate slavery from its local context; make the trauma of enslaved women's rape a secret; divide Antilleans of different races, ethnicities, genders, and social classes; and associate resistance almost exclusively with Haiti. In a second section of each chapter, the production and reception of these plays at Ubu are examined.
5. ICD Film Fest energizes New York, Part 1
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Soleil,Maya (Author)
- Format:
- Newspaper Article
- Publication Date:
- Jun 21-Jun 27, 2007
- Published:
- New York, NY
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- New York Amsterdam News
- Journal Title Details:
- 26 : 22
- Notes:
- Colorful scenes of the island of Martinique flashed across the screen in the semi- darkness of the Schomburg Center last Wednesday evening at the kick-off of the first annual International Caribbean Diaspora (ICD) Film, Theatre & Literary Festival. On the screen, the Caribbean scenery transformed into the riveting images of the popular, Emmy Award-winning, Tony-nominated actor Keith David in some of the films in which he has appeared, such as "There's Something About Mary," "Pitch Black" and "Requiem for a Dream." At the Wednesday evening screening, of "A Dry White Season," David introduced [Euzhan Palcy], as the audience enthusiastically welcomed the esteemed, brilliant, beautiful and regal filmmaker, who had flown in from Paris after literally completing post-production on "Les Mariées de lisies Bourbon" ("The Brides of Bourbon Island") a French, three-hour period piece set in the 17th century. Palcy introduced "A Dry White Season," a political drama set in South Africa during the apartheid era. The film, which stars Marlon Brando, Donald Sutherland, Zakes Mokae and Susan Sarandon, is a story that focuses on the social movements of South Africa and the Soweto riots. The film was "heralded for putting the politics of apartheid into meaningful, human terms." The film, which was heartily received by the audience, is a classic. It is still as timely today as when it was first release in 1989.
6. Race Fundamentalism: Caribbean Theater and the Challenge to Black Diaspora
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Chetty,Raj (Author)
- Format:
- Dissertation/Thesis
- Publication Date:
- 2013
- Published:
- Washington: University of Washington
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- ProQuest Dissertations and Theses
- Notes:
- 223 p., This dissertation engages with radical Caribbean theater as a crucial literary archive that is nonetheless underexplored as an expression of political culture and thought. The theoretical grounding of the chapters emerges from the analytically generative thrust of a comment by C. L. R. James in The Black Jacobins: "to neglect the racial factor as merely incidental is an error only less grave than to make it fundamental." While the phrase asserts that race cannot be neglected, it also cautions against ensconcing race as fundamental analytical priority, suggesting a powerfully fluid conceptualization of radical political culture. Argues that radical theater projects in Jamaica and the Dominican Republic share this fluid conceptualization of radical politics with the Trinidadian James's own stage versions of the Haitian Revolution.
7. Redness of Blackness: Revisting Dereck Walcott's Mulato Aesthetics
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Oloruntoba-Oju,Motayo (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- 2006
- Published:
- Mona, Jamaica: Extra Mural Dept. of the University College of the West Indies
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Caribbean Quarterly
- Journal Title Details:
- 52(1) : 12-25
- Notes:
- "The problem involved in the description of Caribbean aesthetics is not only due to the heterogeneity of Caribbean culture - given its antecedents - but also the complex cognitive and social orientation of the individual Caribbean artist." (author)