Dancing on the Volcano: The Haitian Revolution and Atlantic Performance
submitted by Marvin's Underground Evening Lectures
on 10/06/18
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Haiti's revolutionary origins and independence influenced its theatrical style. Kluge Fellow Peter Reed discusses the resulting perceptions of Haitians and their republic in the Atlantic world from the 1790s to the twentieth century. Speaker Biography: Peter P. Reed is assistant professor of early American literature and culture at the University of Mississippi. His scholarship focuses on early American and Atlantic drama, theatre, and popular culture, and he has recently published "Rogue Performances," a study of early American theatre and the roles of the young nation's less privileged classes. His current research follows transnational circulations of performance cultures throughout the Caribbean and Atlantic world.
