Skip to content

Bibliography

Bisset, Catherine. Placeholder (Edinburgh: Salamander Street, 2023)

Bisset, Catherine, Flavia D’Avila and Jaïrus Obayome. “Knowledge Exchange Theatre and the Colonial Caribbean: Creating Placeholder” in Colonial-Era Caribbean Theatre: Issues in Research, Writing and Methodology, ed. by Julia Prest, 231-55

Camier, Bernard. “A ‘Free Artist of Color’ in Late-Eighteenth-Century Saint-Domingue: The Life and Times of Minette”, International Journal of the Study of Music and Music Performance 1:1 (2019), 1-26

Camier, Bernard. “Jeanne, Louise, Anne Beauvernet dite Lise (Port-au-Prince 1773-Paris circa 1840?) demi-sœur de Minette et chanteuse de couleur à Saint-Domingue à la fin du XVIIIème siècle”, Généalogie et histoire de la Caraïbe (2018) http://www.ghcaraibe.org/articles/somarticles.html

Camier, Bernard. “Jeannot et Thérèse (Clément, Cap-Français, 1758): A Question of Creole Identity” in Colonialism and Slavery in Performance: Theatre and the Eighteenth-Century French Caribbean, ed. by Jeffrey Leichman and Karine Bénac-Giroux, 89-112

Camier, Bernard and Marie-Christine Hazaël-Massieux. “Jeannot et Thérèse: un opéra-comique en créole au milieu du XVIIIe siècle”, Revue de la société haïtienne d’Histoire et de Géographie 215 (2003), 135-66

Camier, Bernard. “Marie-Madeleine Acquaire: une artiste franco-créole à Saint-Domingue dans la deuxième moitié du XVIIIème siècle”, Généalogie et histoire de la Caraïbe (2020) http://www.ghcaraibe.org/articles/2020-art04.pdf

Camier, Bernard. Minette (Elisabeth, Alexandrine, Louise Ferrand dite), artiste libre de couleur à Port-au-Prince à la fin du XVIIIème siècle: Une étude biographique”, Revue de la société haïtienne d’histoire de géographie et de géologie 259-262 (2018), 214-37

Camier, Bernard. “Minette Ferrand: actualisation des résultats de recherche”, Généalogie et histoire de la Caraïbe (2018) http://www.ghcaraibe.org/articles/somarticles.html

Camier, Bernard and Laurent Dubois. “Voltaire et Zaïre, ou le théâtre des Lumières dans l’aire atlantique française”, Revue d’histoire moderne et contemporaine 54: 3/4 (2007), 41-69

Clay, Lauren. Stagestruck: The Business of Theater in Eighteenth-Century France and Its Colonies (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2013)

Connors, Logan. Theater, War and Revolution in Eighteenth Century France and its Empire (Cambridge, New York: Cambridge University Press, 2023)

Connors, Logan. “The Military-Theatrical Event in French Saint-Domingue” in Colonialism and Slavery in Performance: Theatre and the Eighteenth-Century French Caribbean, ed. by Jeffrey Leichman and Karine Bénac-Giroux, 21-40

Connors, Logan. “Using Military Documents to Study Colonial-Era Theatre and Performance in Saint-Domingue”, in Colonial-Era Caribbean Theatre: Issues in Research, Writing and Methodology, ed. by Julia Prest, 183-204

Dubois, Laurent and Kaïama Glover. “Staging Revolution: Jean Fouchard, Marie Vieux-Chauvet and Writing the Theatre of Eighteenth-Century Saint-Domingue” in Colonialism and Slavery in Performance: Theatre and the Eighteenth-Century French Caribbean, ed. by Jeffrey Leichman and Karine Bénac-Giroux, 259-91

Ferrier, Béatrice. “From the abbé Raynal to César Ribié: L’Héroïne américaine on the stages of Saint-Domingue (1787-88)” in Colonialism and Slavery in Performance: Theatre and the Eighteenth-Century French Caribbean, ed. by Jeffrey Leichman and Karine Bénac-Giroux, 65-87

Force, Pierre. “Race et citoyenneté dans la carrière et les écrits de Charles Henri d’Estaing (1729-94)”, L’Esprit créateur 56: 1 (2016), 68-81

Fouchard, Jean. Le Théâtre à Saint-Domingue (Port-au-Prince: Imprimerie de l’État, 1955; 1988)

Fouchard, Jean. Artistes et répertoire des scènes de Saint-Domingue (Port-au-Prince: Imprimerie de l’État, 1955; 1988)

Leichman, Jeffrey and Karine Bénac-Giroux (eds). Colonialism and Slavery in Performance: Theatre and the Eighteenth-Century French Caribbean (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press/Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment, 2021)

Marie, Laurence. “Writing about Theatre in Saint-Domingue (1766-1791): a Public Voice on a Public Space?” in Colonialism and Slavery in Performance: Theatre and the Eighteenth-Century French Caribbean, ed. by Jeffrey Leichman and Karine Bénac-Giroux,139-65

Marie, Laurence. “Figaro à Saint-Domingue” in Les Lumières du théâtre. Avec Pierre Frantz, ed. by Renaud Bret-Vitoz, Michel Delon et Sophie Marchand (Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2022), 281-88

Memelsdorff, Pedro. “L’Amant statue: Staging Slavery in Pre-Revolutionary Haiti” in Seachanges: Music in the Mediterranean and Atlantic Worlds, 1550–1800, ed. by Kate van Orden (Florence: I Tatti, 2021), 277–303.

Powers, David M. From Plantation to Paradise? Cultural Politics and Musical Theatre in French Slave Colonies, 1764-1789 (Michigan: Michigan State University Press, 2014)

Prest, Julia (ed). Colonial-Era Caribbean Theatre: Issues in Research, Writing and Methodology (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2023)

Prest, Julia. “From Tragic Hero to Creole Businesswoman: Voltaire’s Sémiramis and her parodies in 18th-century France and Saint-Domingue” in The Allure of the Ancient: Receptions of the Ancient Middle East, ca. 1600-1800, ed. by Margaret Geoga and John Steele (Leiden: Brill, 2022), 259-83

Prest, Julia. “Iphigénie en Haïti: Performing Gluck’s Paris Operas in the French Colonial Caribbean”, Eighteenth-Century Music 14:1 (March 2017), 13-29

Prest, Julia. “Pale Imitations: White Performances of Slave Dance in the Theatres of Pre-Revolutionary Saint-Domingue”, Atlantic Studies: Global Currents 16:4 (2019), 502-20 [https://doi.org/10.1080/14788810.2018.1469352]

Prest, Julia. “Parisian Palimpsests and Creole Creations: Mme Marsan and Dlle Minette perform Nina on the Caribbean Stage”, Early Modern French Studies 41:2 (2019), 170-88 [https://doi.org/10.1080/20563035.2019.1592813]

Prest, Julia. Public Theatre and the Enslaved People of Colonial Saint-Domingue (Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2023).

Prest, Julia. “The Familiar Other: Blackface Performance in Creole Works from 1780s Saint-Domingue” in Colonialism and Slavery in Performance: Theatre and the Eighteenth-Century French Caribbean, ed. by Jeffrey Leichman and Karine Bénac-Giroux, 41-63

Prest, Julia. “Uncovering Connections between Theatre and Slavery: Runaway Advertisements in Colonial Saint-Domingue and Beyond” in Colonial-Era Caribbean Theatre: Issues in Research, Writing and Methodology, ed. by Julia Prest, 205-29

Saint-Amand, Pierre. “Finishing Off the Revolution: La Liberté générale of Citoyen B.” in Colonialism and Slavery in Performance: Theatre and the Eighteenth-Century French Caribbean, ed. by Jeffrey Leichman and Karine Bénac-Giroux, 213-24

Les Veuves créoles, comédie, ed. by Julia Prest (Cambridge: MHRA, 2017)