The Coloniality of Catastrophe in Caribbean Theater and Performance (Palgrave Macmillan, 2025), edited by Camilla Stevens and Jon D. Rossini, is now available via Springer Nature. The volume includes essays by Megan Bailon, Shrabani Basu, José Emilio Bencosme Zayas, Nicolette Bethel, Ian A. Bethell Bennett, Raj Chetty, Christian Flaugh, Eren Jaye, Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes, Eric Mayer-García, Priscilla Meléndez, Jon D. Rossini, Emily Sahakian, and Camilla Stevens.
Description: The Coloniality of Catastrophe in Caribbean Theater and Performance calls attention to theater’s capacity to reveal the constructed roots of catastrophe and offer counter catastrophic strategies to live and imagine otherwise.Engaging Anglophone, Francophone, and Hispanophone theater from across the Caribbean and its diaspora, the 12 essays and one interview foster a pan-Caribbean view of theater, identifying shared tropes and theatrical strategies. Essays address a range of 20th and 21st century works that center the relentless cycle of “natural” disasters such as earthquakes, hurricanes, and floods as well as the catastrophic effects of continuing coloniality more broadly. In doing so, they unsettle the normalization of catastrophe. Exploring the power of theater’s situatedness, its iterative quality, and its special arrangement of time, these works remind us of the impact of embodied co-presence in the political realities of everyday life.
Camilla Stevens is Professor in the Departments of Spanish and Portuguese and Latino and Caribbean Studies at Rutgers University-New Brunswick, United States.
Jon D. Rossini is Professor in the Department of Theatre and Dance at the University of California, Davis, United States.
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The Coloniality of Catastrophe in Caribbean Theater and Performance (Palgrave Macmillan, 2025), edited by Camilla Stevens and Jon D. Rossini, is now available via Springer Nature. The volume includes essays by Megan Bailon, Shrabani Basu, José Emilio Bencosme Zayas, Nicolette Bethel, Ian A. Bethell Bennett, Raj Chetty, Christian Flaugh, Eren Jaye, Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes, Eric
