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 IXLizabeth Paravisini-GebertAcknowledgements XiNotes on Contributors XiiiList of Illustrations XixIntroduction Part 1: Gestures of Black and Brown Subjectivities1 Perceiving the Relationships in Nature: An Ecofeminist Reading of La Légende des FleursRégine Michelle Jean-Charles2 Re-staging the Haitian Revolution Narrative: The Tragic Mulatta’s Dissonance and Eziliphonics in Dance on the VolcanoCae Joseph-Massena3 Dirty Love: Marie Chauvet, Guy Régis Jr, and Enfleshed Performances of Revolting SubjectsChristian FlaughPart 2: Theatres and Aesthetics: Crossings of Her Revolt4 The Carnivalesque Theatre of Revolt in Marie Vieux-Chauvet’s FolieCharlee M. Redman Bezilla5 La Danse sur le volcan: Marie Chauvet Tells "Her-Story" of Theatre in Saint-Domingue at the Dawn of the RevolutionStéphanie BérardInterlude: “She was a Legba”Anthony PhelpsPart 3: Actionable Thought, Policing Acts6 “To Live with Her Revolt”: Dance on the Volcano’s Diegetic PivotJeremy Matthew Glick7 The Crime Narrative as Social Commentary: Justice and Power in Marie Chauvet’s “Birds of Prey” and Lucha Corpi’s Eulogy for a Brown AngelGabrielle Gallo8 Spectacle and Surveillance in Marie Vieux-Chauvet’s ColèreIoana PribiagPart 4: Revolt’s Theatrical Returns9 Theatricalizing Amour, Colère, et Folie: José Pliya “Adapts” and “Adjusts” Marie Vieux ChauvetJudith G. Miller10 Love: Translation of José Pliya’s Amour, as Adapted from Marie Vieux-Chauvet’s Amour, with Notes from the TranslatorLena Taub Robles11 “To Fire”: A Process of Dramatically Adapting Depictions of Eighteenth-Century HaitiNehanda Loiseau12 “Bloodied Flower”: On Translating the Burden of the Floral in Marie Chauvet’s La Légende des FleursAlessandra Benedicty-KokkenAfter-Words: A Dialogue with Kaiama L. Glover and Guy Régis Jr