Brazilian Black Theatre: A Political Theatre Against Racism

Douxami, Christine

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March 01 2019

Brazilian Black Theatre: A Political Theatre Against Racism

Christine Douxami

Christine Douxami is a researcher at the Institut des Mondes Africains IMAF (EHESS-IRD-CNRS-Paris 1) and Assistant Professor in Performance Studies at the Université de Franche-Comté. She lived in Salvador da Bahia from 1997 to 2005 and from 2012 to 2014 lived in Rio de Janeiro, carrying out research in association with the Universidade Federal Fluminense. She completed her doctoral thesis in 2001 on Afro-Brazilian Theatre at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes (EHESS, Paris) and is author of “Théâtres Politiques,” (En) Mouvement(s) (MSHE, 2011) and Le théâtre noir brésilien, un processus militant d’affirmation de l’identité afro-brésilienne (l’Harmattan, 2015). She codirected the documentary Fesman 2010, De l’Est à l’Ouest, du Nord au Sud (2012).

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Christine Douxami

Christine Douxami is a researcher at the Institut des Mondes Africains IMAF (EHESS-IRD-CNRS-Paris 1) and Assistant Professor in Performance Studies at the Université de Franche-Comté. She lived in Salvador da Bahia from 1997 to 2005 and from 2012 to 2014 lived in Rio de Janeiro, carrying out research in association with the Universidade Federal Fluminense. She completed her doctoral thesis in 2001 on Afro-Brazilian Theatre at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes (EHESS, Paris) and is author of “Théâtres Politiques,” (En) Mouvement(s) (MSHE, 2011) and Le théâtre noir brésilien, un processus militant d’affirmation de l’identité afro-brésilienne (l’Harmattan, 2015). She codirected the documentary Fesman 2010, De l’Est à l’Ouest, du Nord au Sud (2012).

Online ISSN: 1531-4715

Print ISSN: 1054-2043

2019

New York University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

TDR/The Drama Review (2019) 63 (1 (241)): 32–51.

https://doi.org/10.1162/dram_a_00815

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Black Brazilian theatre constitutes a political and artistic response to the racial discrimination characteristic of Brazilian society. As early as 1944, young members of the recently created black political movement saw theatre as a potential weapon to transform Brazilian society and created the Teatro Experimental do Negro (Black Experimental Theatre). This activist theatre continues to this day to pave the way for other black theatre companies.

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