Colonial-Era Caribbean Theatre

Issues in Research, Writing and Methodology

Häftad, Engelska, 2025

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Cutting across academic boundaries, this volume brings together scholars from different disciplines who have explored together the richness and complexity of colonial-era Caribbean theatre. The volume offers a series of original essays that showcase individual expertise in light of broader group discussions. Asking how we can research effectively and write responsibly about colonial-era Caribbean theatre today, our primary concern is methodology. Key questions are examined via new research into individual case studies on topics ranging from Cuban blackface, commedia dell’arte in Suriname and Jamaican oratorio to travelling performers and the influence of the military and of enslaved people on theatre in Saint-Domingue. Specifically, we ask what particular methodological challenges we as scholars of colonial-era Caribbean theatre face and what methodological solutions we can find to meet those challenges. Areas addressed include our linguistic limitations in the face of Caribbean multilingualism; issues raised by national, geographical or imperial approaches to the field; the vexed relationship between metropole and colony; and, crucially, gaps in the archive. We also ask what implications our findings have for theatre performance today – a question that has led to the creation of a new work set in a colonial theatre and outlined in the volume’s concluding chapter.

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Utgivningsdatum2025-10-03
Mått156 x 234 x undefined mm
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor280
FörlagLiverpool University Press
ISBN9781836245537

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List of Figures List ofContributors Acknowledgements Introduction, Julia Prest Part I: The Pan-CaribbeanChapterOne. Studying the Colonial Caribbean: Combining Geographical and Imperial ApproachesDexnell Peters Chapter Two. Mobility as a Lens forReading the History of Opera in the Colonial Caribbean Charlotte Bentley ChapterThree. Multilingual Approaches to Colonial-EraCaribbean Theatre Research: Challenges and InterventionsSusan Thomas Part II: ApproachesChapterFour. ConnectingMetropole and Colony? Harlequin Travels to SurinameSarah J. Adams ChapterFive. Problemsof Framing: National or Colonial Approaches to Blackface Performance? Jill Lane ChapterSix. Contextualizing Late Eighteenth-Century Jamaican Oratorio: Obstaclesand OpportunitiesWayneWeaverPart III: Sources and GapsChapterSeven. Silences in the Archives: The Mysterious One-Night Stand of JohnFawcett’s Obi; or, Three-Finger’d Jack in Kingston, Jamaica (1862) Jenna M. Gibbs ChapterEight. Using Military Documents to Study Colonial-Era Theatre andPerformance in Saint-DomingueLogan J. Connors Chapter Nine. UncoveringConnections between Theatre and Slavery: Runaway Advertisements in ColonialSaint-Domingue and Beyond Julia Prest ChapterTen. Knowledge Exchange Theatre and the Colonial Caribbean: CreatingPlaceholder Catherine Bisset, Flavia d’Avila and Jaïrus Obayomi