Ina Césaire (born in 1942 in
Martinique
Martinique ( , ; gcf, label=Martinican Creole, Matinik or ; Kalinago: or ) is an island and an overseas department/region and single territorial collectivity of France. An integral part of the French Republic, Martinique is located in th ...
) is a French
playwright
A playwright or dramatist is a person who writes plays.
Etymology
The word "play" is from Middle English pleye, from Old English plæġ, pleġa, plæġa ("play, exercise; sport, game; drama, applause"). The word "wright" is an archaic English ...
and
ethnographer
Ethnography (from Greek ''ethnos'' "folk, people, nation" and ''grapho'' "I write") is a branch of anthropology and the systematic study of individual cultures. Ethnography explores cultural phenomena from the point of view of the subject o ...
. In her 1981 article "Littérature orale et contes", "she discusses how Caribbean story tales are true 'révélateur' of that
aribbeanspirit and affirms that the role of Caribbean folktale is to represent the culture."
She is the daughter of
Aimé Césaire
Aimé Fernand David Césaire (; ; 26 June 1913 – 17 April 2008) was a French poet, author, and politician. He was "one of the founders of the Négritude movement in Francophone literature" and coined the word in French. He founded the Par ...
. Her mother,
Suzanne Césaire
Suzanne Césaire (née Roussi; 11 August 1915 – 16 May 1966), born in Martinique, an overseas department of France, was a French people, French writer, teacher, scholar, anti-colonial and feminist activist, and Surrealism, Surrealist. Her husban ...
, was a French writer from Martinique whose work is connected with the Francophone
Negritude movement.
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
The University of Michigan Press is part of Michigan Publishing at the University of Michigan Library. It publishes 170 new titles each year in the humanities and social sciences. Titles from the press have earned numerous awards, including L ...
, 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
*
*Miyasaki, June
"Writing the Landscape of Memory: Ina Cesaire's ''Memoires d'Isles''" ''Journal of Caribbean Literatures'', June 22, 2009.
References
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)
1942 births
Living people
French women dramatists and playwrights
Martiniquais women writers
Martiniquais writers
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