Book contents
- A History of Haitian Literature
- Additional material
- A History of Haitian Literature
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Chapter 1 Editors’ Introduction
- Chapter 2 Literature as Loot
- Chapter 3 Theater in Early Independent Haiti
- Chapter 4 “So all the world may know it”
- Chapter 5 Civil War, Guerre de Plume, and the Emergence of Early Haitian Periodical Culture
- Chapter 6 History, Politics, and Revolutionary Romanticism in Charles Hérard-Dumesle’s Voyage dans le nord d’Hayti (1824) and the Anonymously Published L’Haïtiade (ca. 1826)
- Chapter 7 The Cénacle and the Sacred
- Chapter 8 Émeric Bergeaud’s Stella
- Chapter 9 The Predicament of Civilization
- Chapter 10 The Politics of Disenchantment
- Chapter 11 Haitian Poetry in Creole
- Chapter 12 Some Causes of the Underdevelopment of Haiti’s Creole-Language Literature
- Chapter 13 Performing Rebellion and Re-membering Haiti’s Past and Present in Twentieth-Century and Contemporary Theater
- Chapter 14 Haitian Writers and the Forging of a National Voice through Periodicals in the Twentieth Century
- Chapter 15 “Arrêtez le monde! Je veux rêver”
- Chapter 16 Occupation-Era Literature in Haiti
- Chapter 17 Haitian Literature and the Dominican Republic
- Chapter 18 Marxism and the Moun Andeyo
- Chapter 19 Jacques Roumain, from Indigenism to Nationalism
- Chapter 20 For a History of the Novel of Haitian Tradition
- Chapter 21 Exile and Twentieth-Century Haitian Writing
- Chapter 22 The Zonbi as Episteme in Haitian Prose Fiction
- Chapter 23 Living Vodou
- Chapter 24 Papa Loko’s Dire Poétique in Twenty-First-Century Port-au-Prince-Based Haitian Poetry
- Chapter 25 Partisan Politics and Twentieth-Century Fictions of the Haitian Revolution
- Chapter 26 Haitian Women’s Fiction
- Chapter 27 Haitian Uses of the Erotic
- Chapter 28 Archiving Narratives of Maternal Loss and Queer Life in Haitian Fiction in the Wake of the 2010 Earthquake
- Index
Chapter 13 - Performing Rebellion and Re-membering Haiti’s Past and Present in Twentieth-Century and Contemporary Theater
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 November 2024
- A History of Haitian Literature
- Additional material
- A History of Haitian Literature
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Chapter 1 Editors’ Introduction
- Chapter 2 Literature as Loot
- Chapter 3 Theater in Early Independent Haiti
- Chapter 4 “So all the world may know it”
- Chapter 5 Civil War, Guerre de Plume, and the Emergence of Early Haitian Periodical Culture
- Chapter 6 History, Politics, and Revolutionary Romanticism in Charles Hérard-Dumesle’s Voyage dans le nord d’Hayti (1824) and the Anonymously Published L’Haïtiade (ca. 1826)
- Chapter 7 The Cénacle and the Sacred
- Chapter 8 Émeric Bergeaud’s Stella
- Chapter 9 The Predicament of Civilization
- Chapter 10 The Politics of Disenchantment
- Chapter 11 Haitian Poetry in Creole
- Chapter 12 Some Causes of the Underdevelopment of Haiti’s Creole-Language Literature
- Chapter 13 Performing Rebellion and Re-membering Haiti’s Past and Present in Twentieth-Century and Contemporary Theater
- Chapter 14 Haitian Writers and the Forging of a National Voice through Periodicals in the Twentieth Century
- Chapter 15 “Arrêtez le monde! Je veux rêver”
- Chapter 16 Occupation-Era Literature in Haiti
- Chapter 17 Haitian Literature and the Dominican Republic
- Chapter 18 Marxism and the Moun Andeyo
- Chapter 19 Jacques Roumain, from Indigenism to Nationalism
- Chapter 20 For a History of the Novel of Haitian Tradition
- Chapter 21 Exile and Twentieth-Century Haitian Writing
- Chapter 22 The Zonbi as Episteme in Haitian Prose Fiction
- Chapter 23 Living Vodou
- Chapter 24 Papa Loko’s Dire Poétique in Twenty-First-Century Port-au-Prince-Based Haitian Poetry
- Chapter 25 Partisan Politics and Twentieth-Century Fictions of the Haitian Revolution
- Chapter 26 Haitian Women’s Fiction
- Chapter 27 Haitian Uses of the Erotic
- Chapter 28 Archiving Narratives of Maternal Loss and Queer Life in Haitian Fiction in the Wake of the 2010 Earthquake
- Index
Summary
How, this chapter asks, does twentieth- and twenty-first-century Haitian theater shed new light on Haitian history and ask burning questions of the nation’s present? Turning to drama has enabled many Haitian dramatists to reach out to wider audiences including illiterate or semi-literate people, as they straddle the divide between oral and written, as well as French and Creole. Many of the dramas explored here retell Haitian origin tales of dismemberment and reassembly. I identify a tradition and dynamics of adapting, remaking, reworking, and remixing that span much Haitian theater. Haitian drama often not only remakes the original material itself but also changes ways of seeing the world from a Haitian point of view. Haitian dramatists’ approaches to translation, adaptation, remaking, and remixing sometimes change the original language, or shift the political and cultural contexts to a Haitian worldview. These acts of rasanblaj often reflect on Haitian history, culture, and current events through a process of constant remaking and call-and-response collaborative interaction. Haitian drama portrays the Haitian people as the main actors and agents in their own stories.
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- A History of Haitian Literature , pp. 230 - 250Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2024