Ina Césaire Explained

Ina Césaire (born in 1942 in Martinique) is a French playwright and ethnographer.^[1] In her 1981 article "Littérature orale et contes",^[2] "she discusses how Caribbean story tales are true 'révélateur' of that [Caribbean] spirit and affirms that the role of Caribbean folktale is to represent the culture."^[3]

She is the daughter of Aimé Césaire. Her mother, Suzanne Césaire, was a French writer from Martinique whose work is connected with the Francophone Negritude movement.^[4]

Works

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: University of Michigan Press, 1994: 49–74.
• "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 ; Monaco: Alphée/Le Serpent à Plumes, 2004.

Reviews

• News: Theater in Review. The New York Times. D. J. R. . Bruckner. October 20, 1993.
• Miyasaki, June, "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.
• Vanessa Lee, Four Caribbean Women Playwrights: Ina Césaire, Maryse Condé, Gerty Dambury and Suzanne Dracius (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021)

Notes and References

1. Web site: Ina Césaire. 2002-11-23.
2. Césaire. Ina. 1981. Littérature orale et contes. L'Historial Antillais, Guadeloupe et Martinique. Des Îles Aux Homes. 1. 479–490.
3. Vété-Congolo. Hanétha. June 2007. Caribbean Storytales: a Methodology for Resistance. . 5. 7 . 10.33596/anth.93 . free.
4. Kent. Alicia. 2011. Race, Gender, and Comparative Black Modernism: Suzanne Lacascade, Marita Bonner, Suzanne Césaire, Dorothy West (review). Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers. 28. 143–145. Project MUSE.