Race and Theatre in France: By Sylvie Chalaye - Hardcover
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Race and Theatre in France: By Sylvie Chalaye
These well-researched essays speak to the situation of African-descended artists on the French stage, especially in prestigious government-subsidized theatres. Through documentation, historical analysis, close attention to productions, and witnessing by Black French-speaking artists, Chalaye uncovers and critiques the unacknowledged racialization (and racism) that have circumscribed the careers...
Judith G. Miller is emerita professor of French and Francophone theatre at New York University. She has published widely in the field and translated some forty plays, including plays for Contemporary Francophone African Plays (Bucknell, 2024) and for Speaking Our Selves: New Plays by African Women, edited by Asiimwe Kawe and Robert Vorlicky (Michigan, 2025).
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