9781837644810 (electronic bk.)

1837644810 (electronic bk.)

1837645035

9781837645039

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.

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Electronic version: Colonial-era Caribbean theatre. London : Liverpool University Press, 2023

Original

Introduction, Julia Prest

Part 1: The Pan-Caribbean

1. Studying the colonial Caribbean: combining geographical and imperial approaches, Dexnell Peters

2. Mobility as a lens for reading the history of opera in the colonial Caribbean, Charlotte Bentley

3. Multilingual approaches to colonial-era Caribbean theatre research: challenges and interventions, Susan Thomas

Part 2: Approaches

4. Connecting metropole and colony? Harlequin travels to Suriname, Sarah J. Adams

5. Problems of framing: national or colonial approaches to blackface performance?, Jill Lane

6. Contextualizing late eighteenth-century jamaican oratorio: obstacles and opportunities, Wayne Weaver

Part 3: Sources and gaps

7. Silences in the archive: the mysterious one-night stand of John Fawcett's Obi; or, three-finger'd Jack in Kingston, Jamaica (1862), Jenna M. Gibbs

8. Using military documents to study colonial-era theatre and performance in Saint-Domingue, Logan J. Connors

9. Uncovering connections between theatre and slavery: runaway advertisements in colonial Saint-Domingue and beyond, Julia Prest

Knowledge exchange theatre and the colonial Caribbean: creating placeholder, Catherine Bisset, Flavia D'Avila and Ja̐rus Obayomi

Theater > Caribbean Area > History.

ProQuest (Firm)