Marie-Vieux Chauvet’s Theatres: Thought, Form, and Performance of Revolt

Congratulations to RLL Associate Professor of French Christian Flaugh and Assistant Professor of Caribbean Literatures and Culture (Caifornia State University, Bakersfield) Lena Taub Robles, who recently published Marie-Vieux Chauvet’s Theatres: Thought, Form, and Performance of Revolt (Leiden/Boston: Brill) in Brill's  “Caribbean Series." It is an extremely well researched book that, among many relevant aspects of the analysis of this performing text, contributes to a detailed exploration of the many difficulties in producing an English-speaking adaptation of this Caribbean theater that is rooted in a different system of symbolic representation and a language rich in regional idiosyncrasies far from the vehicular simplicities of French and English.