Ina Césaire

Martinican playwright (born 1942)

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. ISBN 978-0-472-08258-2
"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 978-2-268-01801-0; Monaco: Alphée/Le Serpent à Plumes, 2004.

Reviews

Bruckner, D. J. R. (October 20, 1993). "Theater in Review". The New York Times.
Miyasaki, June, "Writing the Landscape of Memory: Ina Cesaire's Memoires d'Isles", Journal of Caribbean Literatures, June 22, 2009.

References

^ "Ina Césaire". 2002-11-23.
^ Césaire, Ina (1981). "Littérature orale et contes". L'Historial Antillais, Guadeloupe et Martinique. Des Îles Aux Homes. 1: 479–490.
^ Vété-Congolo, Hanétha (June 2007). "Caribbean Storytales: a Methodology for Resistance". Anthurium: A Caribbean Studies Journal. 5: 7. doi:10.33596/anth.93.
^ 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 – via Project MUSE.

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)