"Toutes ces eaux!": Ecology and Empire in Patrick Chamoiseau's Biblique des derniers gestes
Patrick Chamoiseau's latest novel, Biblique des derniers gestes (2002), is a staging of the tension between the defense of local particularity and immersion in what Hardt and Negri call Empire. This tension is explored most visibly through Chamoiseau's literal and figurative uses of water. The protagonist's relation to water constructs Martinican particularity, but it also catapults him into Empire, the network of interests that govern contemporary global relations. Water and other liquid forms also function as figurative models of political action and cultural identity that productively resolve some of the contradictions at the heart of contemporary postcolonial literature.
New Francophone African and Caribbean Theatres
Acknowledgments Preface by John Conteh-Morgan and Dominic Thomas Introduction: Instrumentalizing Performance and the Francophone Postcolonial Performative 1. Cultural Trauma and Ritual Re-membering: Werewere Liking's Les mains veulent dire 2. The Dramatist as Epic Performer: Eugene Dervain's Saran, ou La reine scelerate 3. The Power and the Pleasures of Dramatized Narrative: Bernard Zadi Zaourou's La guerre des femmes 4. Theatre as Writing and Voice: Patrick Chamoiseau's Manman Dlo contre la fee Carabosse 5. Tradition Instrumentalized: Elie Stephenson's O Mayouri 6. Militariat Grotesqueries and Tragic Lament: Tchicaya U Tam'si's Le destin glorieux du Marechal Nnikon Nniku, prince qu'on sort and Le bal de Ndinga 7. From the Grotesque to the Fantastic: Sony Labou Tansi's Qui a mange Madame d'Avoine Bergotha? 8. Exile and the Failure of the Nation or, Diasporic Subjectivity from Below: Simone Schwarz-Bart's Ton beau capitaine Conclusion: Francophone Theatres in the Age of Globalization References Index
Studies in ancient Mesoamerica
Author(s): Kelly, Isabel; Quirarte, Jacinto; Dillon, Brian D.; Clark, John L.; Fox, James A.; Justeson, John S.; Burger, Richard L.; Asaro, Frank; Graham, John Allen; Heizer, R. F.; Shook, E. M.; Busby, Colin I.; Johnson, Mark C. | Editor(s): Graham, John Allen