@article{1463380,
      recid = {1463380},
      author = {Prest, Julia,},
      title = {Public theatre and the enslaved people of Colonial  Saint-Domingue /},
      pages = {1 online resource (279 pages)},
      abstract = {[This] is an exciting and impressive project that presents  the first study of public theatre and slavery in the French  colony of Saint-Domingue. Prof. Prest brings to bear a  remarkable corpus of sources, from notarial records and  eyewitness accounts to newspaper adverts, published  treatises, and the texts of plays, to advance a series of  significant, groundbreaking findings. Christy Pichichero,  George Mason University, Fairfax, USA Un-silencing the  enslaved Haitians who built the theaters, changed the  scenery, and played the accompaniments, Julia Prest  discovers new worlds backstage in the theaters of  eighteenth-century Saint-Dominguean exemplary study in the  method and imagination required of voicing muted histories.  Joseph Roach, Yale University, Connecticut, USA The French  colony of Saint-Domingue (now Haiti) was home to one of the  richest public theatre traditions of the colonial-era  Caribbean. This book examines the relationship between  public theatre and the enslaved people of  Saint-Dominguesomething that is generally given short  shrift owing to a perceived lack of documentation. Here, a  range of materials and methodologies are used to explore  pressing questions including the mitigated spectatorship of  the enslaved, portrayals of enslaved people in French and  Creole repertoire, the contributions of enslaved people to  theatre-making, and shifting attitudes during the  revolutionary era. The book demonstrates that slavery was  no mere backdrop to this portion of theatre history but an  integral part of its story. It also helps recover the  hidden experiences of some of the enslaved individuals who  became entangled in that story. Julia Prest is Professor of  French and Caribbean Studies at the University of St  Andrews, Scotland, UK. She has published widely on  early-modern French and Caribbean theatre, opera and dance,  and is the creator of the trilingual (English-French-Kreyl)  Theatre in Saint-Domingue, 1764-1791 performance database:  'theatreinsaintdomingue.org'. She has collaborated with  theatre-makers to create new works that bring colonial-era  theatre to todays audiences, and her edited collection,  Colonial-Era Caribbean Theatre: Issues in Research, Writing  and Methodology is forthcoming in 2023.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1463380},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-22691-5},
}