Colonial-Era Caribbean Theatre Issues in Research, Writing and Methodology - Softcover

Prest, Julia

Softcover

ISBN 10: 183624553X ISBN 13: 9781836245537

Verlag: Liverpool University Press, 2025

Inhaltsangabe

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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Julia Prest is Professor of French and Caribbean Studies at the University of St Andrews.

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• Verlag: Liverpool University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2025
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 183624553X
• ISBN 13: 9781836245537
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 280
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