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Une étude consacrée aux héroïnes noires du répertoire théâtral qui ont fait l'objet d'une occultation et d'une invisibilisation sous l'influence des enjeux coloniaux du siècle classique. Parmi elles, Andromède, Egyptienne blanchie par Corneille, ou Cléopâtre, personnage de Shakespeare incarnée par des femmes blanches, malgré la description de l'auteur. ©Electre 2020 Une idée répandue voudrait qu'il n'y ait pas d'héroïnes noires au répertoire et par conséquent pas vraiment de grands rôles au théâtre pour les comédiennes afro-descendantes. Mais est-ce bien vrai ? Les héroïnes à la peau sombre de l'histoire n'ont-elles pas plutôt perdu leur couleur sous l'influence des enjeux coloniaux au siècle classique ? Corneille fait le choix délibéré de blanchir son Andromède. Fille d'Egypte à la peau trop foncée pour être aimable, on fera de la Cléopâtre de Shakespeare une Pharaonne à la peau laiteuse sous un soleil de plomb, détournant les mots de l'auteur. Du même Shakespeare, on supprimera des répliques entières de Peines d'amour perdues, que des siècles d'effacement ne permettent plus d'entendre aujourd'hui. Occultation, invisibilisation, décoloration... les figures théâtrales à la peau sombre ont disparu du paysage dramatique avec l'histoire coloniale, c'est ce qu'entreprend de montrer cet ouvrage qui part sur les traces de ces héroïnes du répertoire moins blanches qu'on ne croit.De quoi renverser dénis et préjugés et relire autrement le répertoire.

Women, Black, in literature. --- Métis women --- Racially mixed women in literature --- Characters and characteristics in literature --- Race discrimination in literature --- Theater --- Political aspects

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Assertiveness (Psychology) in literature --- Blacks in literature --- Self in literature --- Social isolation in literature --- South African literature (English) --- Stereotypes (Social psychology) in literature --- Women and literature --- Women, Black, in literature --- History and criticism

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Caribbean Ghostwriting addresses a question central to the fields of postcolonial, feminist, and African diasporic studies:how are we to know the colonial past when the lives of colonized and enslaved people were largely written out of history? Caribbean authors Michelle Cliff, Maryse Conde, and Dionne Brand address the silences and gaps of historiography by fleshing out overlooked historical figures in literary form. These authors do not simply reconstruct lost lives, but rather they foreground the tension between the real, material traces of peoples lives and the fact of their erasure. In novels that are at once historical, biographical, and artistic, they portray real but sparsely documented and therefore haunting histories through a strategy identifiable as ghostwriting. Erica L. Johnson defines ghostwriting as an important genre of Caribbean literature through which authors literally ghostwrite stories for lost historical figures even while they poetically preserve the unspeakable nature of the archival lacunae their novels engage.

Caribbean fiction --- Literature and history --- Women, Black, in literature. --- Slavery --- Littérature et histoire --- Femmes écrivains --- Esclavage --- Women authors --- History and criticism. --- Historiography. --- Région caraïbe --- Histoire et critique --- Historiographie --- Littérature et histoire --- Femmes écrivains --- Région caraïbe

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"In an examination of the fiction of contemporary women writers of the African Diaspora, these writers engage important texts from writers in Africa, the Caribbean, and the United States, largely ignored by mainstream literary scholars. They employ fresh and poignant critical perspectives accessible to both scholars and students. The editors provide a comprehensive historical and critical overview of black women's studies as it has developed transnationally and they cogently situate these essays within this rapidly developing field."--Jacket.

American literature --- Caribbean literature --- Women and literature --- African literature --- African American women in literature. --- Women, Black, in literature. --- African American women --- Women, Black, in literature --- African American women in literature --- English --- Languages & Literatures --- American Literature --- Afro-American women in literature --- Afro-American women --- Women, African American --- Women, Negro --- Women --- English literature --- Agrarians (Group of writers) --- Black literature (African) --- Authors, African --- Literature --- African American authors --- History and criticism. --- Women authors --- History --- Intellectual life. --- History and criticism --- Intellectual life

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This text was the first monograph to document and analyse the plays written by Black and Asian women in Britain. The volume explores how Black and Asian women playwrights theatricalize their experiences of migration, displacement, identity, racism and sexism in Britain. Plays by writers such as Tanika Gupta, Winsome Pinnock, Maya Chowdhry and Amrit Wilson, among others - many of whom have had their work produced at key British theatre sites - are discussed in some detail. Other playwrights' work is also briefly explored to suggest the range and scope of contemporary plays. The volume analyses concerns such as geographies of un/belonging, reverse migration (in the form of tourism), sexploitation, arranged marriages, the racialization of sexuality, and asylum seeking as they emerge in the plays, and argues that Black and Asian women playwrights have become constitutive subjects of British theatre.

English drama --- Feminist drama, English --- Women, Black --- Asians --- Feminism and literature --- Women and literature --- Women, Black, in literature. --- Asians in literature. --- Literature --- Orientals --- Ethnology --- Black women --- Women, Negro --- English literature --- History and criticism. --- Women authors --- Black authors --- Asian authors --- Intellectual life.