Ina Césaire
Encyclopedia
Ina Césaire is a Martinican playwright
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She is the daughter of Aimé Césaire
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Playwright
A playwright, also called a dramatist, is a person who writes plays.The term is not a variant spelling of "playwrite", but something quite distinct: the word wright is an archaic English term for a craftsman or builder...
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She is the daughter of Aimé Césaire
Aimé Césaire
Aimé Fernand David Césaire was a French poet, author and politician from Martinique. He was "one of the founders of the négritude movement in Francophone literature".-Student, educator, and poet:...
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Plays
- Mémoires d'Isles, Maman N. et Maman F. Paris: Editions Caribéennes, 1985.
- L'Enfant des Passages ou la Geste de Ti-Jean. Paris: Editions Caribéennes, 1987.
- La Maison close (inéd.). création 1991.
- Rosanie Soleil. Paris: Soc. Des Auteurs et Compositeurs Dramatiques, 1992. création 1992.
In English
- "Island Memories". Translation, Christiane Makward et J. Miller. Plays by French and Francophone Women. Ann Arbor: Univ. of Michigan Press, 1994: 49-74. ISBN 9780472082582
- "Fire's Daughters (Rosanie Soleil)". Translation. Judith G. Miller: New French Language Plays. New York: Ubu Repertory Theatre, 1993: 1-53.
Novels
- Zonzon Tête Carrée. Monaco: Ed. du Rocher, 1994 ISBN 9782268018010; Monaco: Alphée/Le Serpent à Plumes, 2004.
Reviews
- "Writing the Landscape of Memory: Ina Cesaire's Memoires d'Isles.", Journal of Caribbean Literatures, June 22, 2009
External links
- "FRAMEWORKS FOR INTERPRETING FRENCH CARIBBEAN WOMEN'S THEATRE", Theatre Survey (2009), 50: 67-90
- "Two Plays by Ina Césaire: Mémoires d'Isles and L'enfant des Passages", Theatre Research International, (1990), 15: 223-233