Braun, Juliane (Author)
University of Virginia Press
Publication date: 2019
Language: English
Physical Details: 280
The stages of antebellum New Orleans did more than entertain. In the city’s early years, French-speaking residents used the theatre to assert their political, economic, and cultural sovereignty in the face of growing Anglo-American dominance. Beyond local stages, the francophone struggle for cultural survival connected people and places in the early United States, across the American hemisphere, and in the Atlantic world.Moving from France to the Caribbean to the American continent, Creole Drama follows the people that created and sustained French theatre culture in New Orleans from its inception in 1792 until the beginning of the Civil War. Juliane Braun draws on the neglected archive of francophone drama native to Louisiana, as well as a range of documents from both sides of the Atlantic, to explore the ways in which theatre and drama shaped debates about ethnic identity and transnational belonging in the city. Francophone identity united citizens of different social and racial backgrounds, and debates about political representation, slavery, and territorial expansion often played out on stage.Recognizing theatres as sites of cultural exchange that could cross oceans and borders, Creole Drama offers not only a detailed history of francophone theatre in New Orleans but also an account of the surprising ways in which multilingualism and early transnational networks helped create the American nation.
...MoreSimilar Citations
Essay Review
Coppola, Al;
(2011)
Science/Spectacle
(/p/isis/citation/CBB001566424/)
Article
Davies, Surekha;
Whitehead, Neil L.;
(2012)
From Maps to Mummy-Curses: Rethinking Encounters, Ethnography and Ethnology
(/p/isis/citation/CBB001212975/)
Article
Coleman, Deirdre;
(2006)
Entertaining Entomology: Insects and Insect Performers in the Eighteenth Century
(/p/isis/citation/CBB000741373/)
Article
Peperkamp, Ben;
(2006)
“Bald wird komen das Feur!” Over de representatie van natuurwetenschappelijke en medische kennis in de klucht De electriciteit; of Pefroen, met het schaepshoofd ge-electriceerd (1746)
(/p/isis/citation/CBB000700820/)
Thesis
Sean Thomas O'Neil;
(2019)
The Art of Signs: Symbolic Notation and Visual Thinking in Early Modern Europe, 1600-1800
(/p/isis/citation/CBB896696901/)
Chapter
Morus, Iwan Rhys;
(2007)
“More the Aspect of Magic than Anything Natural”: The Philosophy of Demonstration
(/p/isis/citation/CBB000773410/)
Article
Rachel Alpha Johnston Hurst;
Luna Dolezal;
(2018)
Cosmetic Surgery as "Cut-Up": The Body and Gender in Breyer P-Orridge's Pandrogeny
(/p/isis/citation/CBB410641240/)
Book
Short, John Rennie;
(2012)
Korea: A Cartographic History
(/p/isis/citation/CBB001214777/)
Article
Low, Morris;
Chung, Hyung-Min;
(2011)
Introduction
(/p/isis/citation/CBB001210415/)
Chapter
Gordon, Rae Beth;
(2004)
From Charcot to Charlot: Unconscious Imitation and Spectatorship in French Cabaret and Early Cinema
(/p/isis/citation/CBB000550993/)
Article
Gordon, Rae Beth;
(2003)
Natural Rhythm: La Parisienne Dances with Darwin: 1875--1910
(/p/isis/citation/CBB000640712/)
Book
Ann-Janine Morey;
(2014)
Picturing Dogs, Seeing Ourselves: Vintage American Photographs
(/p/isis/citation/CBB818895674/)
Article
Jodey Nurse-Gupta;
(2018)
A Fair-Ribbon Quilt: Crafting Identity and Creating Memory
(/p/isis/citation/CBB656058386/)
Article
Philipp Krämer;
(2013)
Linguistique coloniale au XIXe siècle: Le discours racialiste dans la recherche française sur les langues créoles
(/p/isis/citation/CBB678076399/)
Chapter
Siegert, Reinhart;
(2013)
Scientific “Patriotism” between Self-Importance, Self-Recommendation and Camouflage. The Enlightenment Requirement of Public Benefit as Reflected in the Title Pages and Prefaces of Popular Works by Scholars
(/p/isis/citation/CBB001202277/)
Article
Labrador Méndez, Germán;
(2008)
Las luces figuradas: imágenes de dispositivos tecnocientíficos y secularización en la España del siglo XVIII: retratos, linternas mágicas y globos
(/p/isis/citation/CBB001022556/)
Chapter
Ogilvie, Brian W.;
(2013)
The Pleasure of Describing: Art and Science in August Johann Rösel Von Rosenhof's Monthly Insect Entertainment
(/p/isis/citation/CBB001500477/)
Thesis
Paul Michael Warden;
(2019)
Yellow Fever in the Imagination and Development of an American New Orleans, 1793-1860
(/p/isis/citation/CBB006071963/)
Thesis
Kevin George McQueeney;
(2020)
The City that Care Forgot: Apartheid Health Care, Racial Health Disparity, and Black Health Activism in New Orleans, 1718-2018
(/p/isis/citation/CBB995254049/)
Article
Lustig, Harry;
Shepherd-Barr, Kristen;
(2002)
Science as Theater
(/p/isis/citation/CBB000300569/)
Be the first to comment!