The Coloniality of Catastrophe in Caribbean Theater and Performance (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9783031857904)

The Coloniality of Catastrophe in Caribbean Theater and Performance calls attention to theater's capacity to reveal the constructed roots of catastrophe and offer counter catastrophic strategies to live and imagine otherwise. Engaging anglophone, francophone, and hispanophone theater from across the Caribbean and its diaspora, the 12 essays and one interview foster a pan-Caribbean view of theater, identifying shared tropes and theatrical strategies. Essays address a range of 20^th and 21^st century works that center the relentless cycle of "natural" disasters such as earthquakes, hurricanes, and floods as well as the catastrophic effects of continuing coloniality more broadly. In doing so, they unsettle the normalization of catastrophe. Exploring the power of theater's situatedness, its iterative quality, and its special arrangement of time, these works remind us of the impact of embodied co-presence in the political realities of everyday life.

Author: Camilla Stevens
ISBN-10: 3031857909
ISBN-13: 9783031857904
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Language: English
Published: 05/27/2025
Pages: 273
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.11lbs
Size: 8.27h x 5.83w x 0.69d