From Plantation to Paradise? - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook From Plantation to Paradise? write by David M. Powers. This book was released on 2014-05-01. From Plantation to Paradise? available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In 1764 the first printing press was established in the French Caribbean colonies, launching the official documentation of operas and plays performed there, and marking the inauguration of the first theatre in the colonies. A rigorous study of pre–French Revolution performance practices in Guadeloupe, Martinique, and Saint-Domingue (now Haiti), Powers’s book examines the elaborate system of social casting in these colonies; the environments in which nonwhite artists emerged; and both negative and positive contributions of the Catholic Church and the military to operas and concerts produced in the colonies. The author also explores the level of participation of nonwhites in these productions, as well as theatre architecture, décor, repertoire, seating arrangements, and types of audiences. The status of nonwhite artists in colonial society; the range of operas in which they performed; their accomplishments, praise, criticism; and the use of créole texts and white actors/singers à visage noirs (with blackened faces) present a clear picture of French operatic culture in these colonies. Approaching the French Revolution, the study concludes with an examination of the ways in which colonial opera was affected by slave uprisings, the French Revolution, the emergence of “patriotic theatres,” and their role in fostering support for the king, as well as the impact on subsequent operas produced in the colonies and in the United States.
From Plantation to Paradise?
From Plantation to Paradise? - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook From Plantation to Paradise? write by David M. Powers. This book was released on 2014. From Plantation to Paradise? available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Paradise Plantation
Paradise Plantation - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Paradise Plantation write by Henrietta Reid. This book was released on 1979. Paradise Plantation available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Paradise and Plantation
Paradise and Plantation - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Paradise and Plantation write by Ian Gregory Strachan. This book was released on 2002. Paradise and Plantation available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "It is hard to ignore the hotels. They rise like mammoths of iron and concrete above the homes, the office buildings, the trees of New Providence, island of my birth." So begins Ian Strachan’s history of the idea of the Caribbean as paradise. The modern image of the Bahamas as a carefree tourist oasis has its origins in much earlier cultural mythology: the first colonizers conceptualized the Caribbean as a place beyond time, beyond the real, and the region produced profit seemingly without work. Yet an Edenic experience was made possible only by the existence of the plantation--the very opposite of paradise for the Amerindians, whose homeland was colonized, and for those brought as slaves. Examining poetry, plays, novels, travelogues, magazine ads, postcards, posters, brochures, stamps, popular songs, paintings, and illustrations, Paradise and Plantation presents telling links between the myth of a Caribbean paradise and colonial ideologies and economics. Strachan considers the cultural, economic, and social effects of tourism’s "brochure discourse" in the modern Caribbean, specifically in the Bahamas, and he enriches his discussion with a fascinating exploration of the ways postcolonial Caribbean writers such as V. S. Naipaul, Derek Walcott, Paule Marshall, Jamaica Kincaid, and Michelle Cliff have responded to the paradise-plantation dichotomy. The conspicuous disparity between the Caribbean’s reputation as paradise and the stark social, economic, and political realities of the region is not news. Ian Strachan’s genealogy of the paradise-plantation myth goes far beyond the established discourse in paradise studies, however, providing a new and interdisciplinary approach to further the discussion.
Paradise and Plantation
Paradise and Plantation - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Paradise and Plantation write by Ian Gregory Strachan. This book was released on 2002. Paradise and Plantation available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Novelist and playwright Strachan (English, U. of Massachusetts- Dartmouth) identifies historical, political, economic, cultural, and geographical conditions that make his native Caribbean an ideal location for paradise, and discusses the means by which the idea has thrived among travel agents and their clients. Annotation (c)2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).
