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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : instrumentalizing performance and the Francophone postcolonial performative
  • Cultural trauma and ritual re-membering : Werewere Liking's Les mains veulent dire
  • The dramatist as epic performer : Eugene Dervain's Saran, ou la reine scelerate
  • The power and the pleasures of dramatized narrative : Bernard Zadi Zaourou's La guerre des femmes
  • Theatre as writing and voice : Patrick Chamoiseau's Manman dlo contre la fee carabosse
  • Tradition instrumentalized : Elie Stephenson's O mayouri
  • Militariat grotesqueries and tragic lament : Tchicaya u Tam'si's Le destin glorieux du marechal nnikon nniku, prince qu'on sort and le bal de ndinga
  • From the grotesque to the fantastic : Sony Labou Tansi's Qui a mange Madame d'Avoine Bergotha?
  • Exile and the failure of the nation; or, diasporic subjectivity from below : Simone Schwarz-Bart's Ton beau capitaine
  • Conclusion : Francophone theatres in the age of globalization.