Tuesday, March 31, 2015

 

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SUPERNATURAL, CAR CHASE OR JOY RIDE?
Dr Jacques COULARDEAU & Ivan EVE
Illustrations Annunzio COULARDEAU

CHAPTER ONE, The Tale of Two Brothers and Their Impala 67
CHAPTER TWO, Hitting The Road
CHAPTER THREE, They “Are The Hollow Men”
CHAPTER FOUR, Their Number Is 666
CHAPTER FIVE, And Cain did not slay Abel
APPENDICES: SUPERNATURAL IS LEADING TO SO MANY THINGS
Œ- ELAINE PAGELS – REVELATIONS, VISIONS, PROPHECY, & POLITICS IN THE BOOK OF REVELATION; - ERNEST ALFRED THOMPSON WALLIS BUDGE – LEGENDS OF THE GODS, THE EGYPTIAN TEXTS; Ž- BRIAN DE PALMA – RAISING CAIN; - PROPHECY COLES – THE IMPORTANCE OF SIBLING RELATIONSHIPS IN PSYCHOANALYSIS; - JOHN STEI NBECK – EAST OF EDEN; ‘- ELIA KAZAN – JAMES DEAN – EAST OF EDEN; ’- TV SERIES – EAST OF EDEN – 1981; “- JAMES DEAN – GIANT; ”-JAMES DEAN – REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE

And we went down into the mental maze of this American series that turns the car into the supreme weapon to correct the Creation of God of all the mishaps it went through and all the monsters God himself created along with all the rest. What a sloppy achievement for God and what a reckless endeavor for the producers of the series! And the project of the authors was so phenomenal that it could not in any way go through academic acceptance. The endeavor was supported though for a while by some academic master minds in the field of American series but it could not survive a university reading committee in a public university that was looking for the American-ness of American TV series. This series is far beyond hamburgers, Coca Cola and Bourbon. Miles on the other side of the border of suburban American middle class comfort or mild psychosis. Thriving or smoldering in the outer space of standard normality or even digestible crime.


© Jacques COULARDEAU, Ivan EVE, Annunzio COULARDEAU

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Monday, March 30, 2015

 

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THE INDIAN OCEAN THE MARE NOSTRUM OF HUMANITY [Kindle Edition] Dr Jacques COULARDEAU & Ivan EVE (Author)
A MENTAL JOURNEY

Dr Jacques Coulardeau was in Sri Lanka in 2005 and he brought back from there a tremendous treasure chest full of poetry, meditation, philosophy.

Ivan Eve came back to France in 2009 after twelve years in Vietnam and Laos with an advanced Asian reserve and education. He met Dr Jacques Coulardeau in the Paris Sorbonne and since then has been working with him as his assistant.

This volume brings together several studies and documents, most of them unpublished before on the general geo-political question of the restructuring of the Indian Ocean as the center of global maritime commerce.

At first we go back to its central position as soon as Homo Sapiens emerges from Africa some 150,000 years ago.

Then we look at the history of Sri Lanka from the arrival of Homo Sapiens, then Buddhism, then the Chinese and later on the European colonial powers, to the central position it is taking in maritime commerce thanks to Chinese investment and the developing of the port of Hambantota and a few others after the end of the LTTE terrorist period.


We then stop on the Buddhist influence in Sri lanka as it appears in the Sigiri Graffiti in, Sigiriya from the 9th to the 12th centuries, plus a selection of these Sigiri Graffiti in an original English translation;

And finally we move to the development of Container maritime Commerce in the Indian Ocean at the Global level today

And we can then come to the concluding hypothesis that the world is being restructured globally and by reconstructing the dominance of the Indian Ocean the way it was up to the 15th century though in our modern context.

Jacques Coulardeau


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Prodigieusement pierrotiste mais parfaitement lunaire

MARCEL CARNÉ – JACQUES PRÉVERT – ARLETTY – JEAN-LOUIS BARRAULT – PIERRE BRASSEUR – LES ENFANTS DU PARADIS – 1945

Ce film est un prodige de turbulence et de sentimentalité au bord de la passion et du tsunami populaire.


C’est tout d’abord et avant tout un film sur le théâtre, le théâtre parlant et le théâtre de mime, tous théâtres à l’italienne avec deux balcons et un paradis, bien qu’il manque le pigeonnier (je me souviens de celui du Grand Théâtre de Bordeaux). Une croyance folle au théâtre populaire où les pauvres sont au paradis et les acteurs sont leurs anges et ils ont intérêt à se bien tenir. Et une pièce était un vrai succès quand le parterre suivait le paradis, même si les loges et les balcons n’aimaient pas le charivari et les interventions bruyantes et passionnées du populo du paradis. C’était le monde à l’envers, du moins le monde de Shakespeare puisque chez William le populo est au parterre et le paradis ou troisième balcon est pour les estudiantins pas totalement désargentés.


Mais le film oppose, compare et en fait chante les deux grands genres du théâtre d’acteurs et du théâtre de mimes. L’un comme l’autre ont leurs règles et leurs fonctionnements, mais tous les deux sont des arts de passionnés pour un public de passionnés, pour des auteurs qui n’ont jamais le dernier mot mais pour des créditeurs toujours enragés et violents que seuls de généreux donateurs peuvent tenir à distance. C’est toute une période largement disparue en France où l’état a pris la relève du mécénat royal inventé par François 1er qui avait pris partiellement le relai de l’église et de quelques nobles. L’état mécène fait que le théâtre populaire est mort au profit du théâtre pour la classe moyenne moyennement éduquée qui veut apparaître ouverte d’esprit : beaucoup d’enseignants enseignés (80% selon certains). Il reste bien sûr le théâtre privé mais alors on est chez la classe moyenne moyennement éduqué qui ne crache pas sur l’étiquette bourgeoise ou qui n’en a cure. Si vous avez envie de voir des choses neuves, des créations vivantes par leurs auteurs qui sont toujours ou encore vivants c’est là que vous devez aller car le théâtre public fait surtout dans l’archéologiquement funéraire pour ne pas payer de droits d’auteurs.


Le film est donc la fête du théâtre quand il était œuvre de création complète, même si un Othello ne saurait résister à la montée des classiques.


« O rage ! O désespoir ! Mon Dieu qu’ai-je donc dit !
N’ai-je donc tant vieilli que pour la calomnie ! »


Le film ajoute à ce théâtre la scène de la rue qui est sans cesse un boulevard du crime ou une esplanade de carnaval. On défile, on danse, on chante, on musique, et on fait tant d’autres choses dans cette rue en folie. On détrousse le passant. On pique les poches et les montres. On tue par ci par là quelques badauds ébahis ou quelques rentiers confits. Tuer est aussi un art et voler est un des beaux arts fondamentaux à la vie, même si celle-ci doit s’envoler d’un passant pour donner la fortune à un malappris à la fine lame.


Et en plus ce film savamment et brillamment restauré est en un noir et blanc éclatant de lumière et d’ombre mélangées et entrelacées. C’était le temps des voitures à chevaux et des luminaires à gaz de ville. Rien ne vaut la bonne répartie et si un nobliau invite son cocher à votre prochaine performance n’oubliez pas d’inviter ses chevaux en avant-scène. On n’a que la finesse des rênes  de ses chevaux quand on n’a pas la brillance d’une intelligence bien éduquée ou d’un sens social empathique.


Vous adorerez les acteurs et actrices, tous très jeunes et tous promis à des vies bien richement chargées. C’était le temps où les vedettes se formaient treize à la douzaine. Depuis on a importé le star business de je ne sais quelle forêt de houx à côté d’une ville de perdition dédiée aux anges du paradis. Suivez mon regard. On y finit là bas comme ailleurs six pieds sous terre, même s’il n’y a que les petits oiseaux et ces vedettes pour passer de l’eau en l’air, comme disait mon père, avec un mot plus clair en deux syllabes commençant avec un pêt bien sûr, un pêt mémorable : « Celle-ci se dégagea encore, mais en faisant ce mouvement elle lâcha un pet, non pas un pet vulgaire mais un pet au son cristallin qui provoqua chez elle un rire violent et nerveux. » — (Guillaume Apollinaire, Les Onze Mille Verges, 1907, Les Onze mille verges ou les Amours d'un hospodar [Format Kindle], ). Et Frédérick Lemaître n’aurait pas pu dire mieux. Mais entre Apollinaire et Prévert on est bien entouré.

Dr Jacques COULARDEAU



Saturday, March 28, 2015

 

Two films and one series: a deadly mixture

THE HOUSE OF THE SPIRITS – 1993

It was a great film when it came out. The acting is still absolutely astonishing and admirable and yet there is something that is missing twenty-two years later.

The film is so centered on the main character, Esteban Trueba, and his family, or rather his personal history in Chile, his economic fight to raise himself by his own effort over his lot, to become one of the most economically powerful, and later one of the most politically powerful men that we do not really capture the country itself. What is shown of the working class movement is just really anecdotal. Too close to the tragedy in 1993 the film does not show Allende’s party, which was not the Communist Party of Chile, using Lenin and Stalin as direct political references. Their approach was tremendously sectarian and that explains this, and vice versa. They only won the election with slightly more than one third of the votes which was not enough and the enthusiasm of the beginning wore out rather fast.


The film is silent about the real conspiracy with the support of the USA and with the deranged support of the Conservatives who did not even understood what they were doing, at least that’s what the film shows though I am sure it was not that simple: these politicians supported the putsch and for a long time then Pinochet himself. The film is silent on the length of his reign, on the difficulty the country faced later on when he was to be removed, etc. It is nearly a miracle that some democratic order could be re-established in this country. It is true 1993 was too close: the distance was not enough to be able to really get into some detail about the contradictory situation the victory of El Pueblo Unido brought into Chile with Allende first and then Pinochet.

The film is silent too on the fact the US embassy was not the refuge for escaping revolutionaries because the USA were on Pinochet’s side all along. Canada was the only viable option indeed. So twenty-two years after the film and forty-two years after the putsch the film is rather nothing but a denunciation of harsh working conditions for the working class, of military arrogance and violence when “service men” meddle with politics, the full inhumanity of the politicians who accepted the adventure of a military coup, and the purely family-oriented empathy of Esteban Trueba at the end of the film.


The fact that Blanca was questioned during her detention by her half brother was sentimentalese and such a connection between the torturer and the tortured person was a fair guarantee that the questioning would fail because on the torturer’s side there was a desire for revenge, hence the use of pure violence for the sake of violence, and on the side of the tortured person, Blanca, there was a strong feeling of resistance, hatred, desire to fail that intruder, that out of wedlock competitor, challenger, dominator. There should never be any relation of that sort between the two sides of a questioning session of that type, i.e. under duress.

So the only thing we have at the end is that decision of Blanca’s to wash away any desire of revenge or vengeance, but we know that in 1993 that could not be true and even today it sounds very difficult. We have very few examples of that nature and South Africa does not really qualify because in that case the dictatorial power (the apartheid government) just passed that power to their opposition whose leader they liberated from prison on the occasion. For that feeling to be believable you need distance and a tremendous political change that can bring reconciliation. But the real objective was and still is justice in such cases.


The film then has strong scenes and moments but altogether it has become too sentimental and politically superficial to be believable.

Dr Jacques COULARDEAU

RAGTIME, THE MUSICAL  – CD –  1998

The music is quite fine and even at times great though it is not what you could expect as ragtime music. But the music is varied and entertaining, certainly swinging and joyful.


The situation at the beginning of the 20th century in New York, the state as well as the city is rather simple with a lot of social clichés: the immigrant who will succeed by pure chance added to some hard work; the bourgeois type upper middle class racially tolerant wife; the real ragtime musician and his loved one; the anarchistic working class militant calling for a revolution; The ship full of Jewish immigrants that nearly sank in view of Ellis Island; and I should say etc.

The main events are the vicious killing of the musician’s girlfriend by some gang of firemen who will also destroy the musician’s Model T out of spite because the man is black. Then the social and psychological derangement that this racist fact causes in the musician is by far too much since he starts a gang of bomb terrorists who start bombing all kinds of buildings to get even with society, to get a vengeance. The son of the rich family whose fortune was made in firecrackers decides out of spite mostly to join the musician and his gang and help him make better bombs. That is slightly childish.


The negotiations to stop this rampage are performed with the worst forked tongue you can imagine and the musician who is guaranteed justice in court and who has gained a safe exit for the members of his gang, comes out and is shot down at once by all the police waiting for him. That too is too much.

The end becomes then sentimentalese.

That kind of discourse on race relations and what it used to be and is no longer is rather easy but was typical of the 1990s. It is when racial discrimination was at the highest in justice and prisons that we had so many of these entertaining musicals or film to try to make us believe everything was going dandy and fine. It is evident that we are far from that nice situation and discourse. After six years under a Black president in the US black kids, teenagers mostly are shot down by the police even when they are unarmed.


Sorry chaps! But there is a lot of work still to do to come to a racially tolerant society in the USA.

Dr Jacques COULARDEAU

PETER KRAUSE – MICHAEL C. HALL – SIX FEET UNDER – 2001-2005

Full and total! The series is all there in 25 DVDs and 63 episodes. It is morbid but in many ways absolutely hilarious. Morbid because it only deals with dead people since it takes place in a funeral home. Morbid also because the family that owns the funeral parlor and the family of their Latino associate or partner are so taken up by these deadly and lethal circumstances that they lose their minds and their sanity that get locked up in some coffin. In other words their lives are nothing but a parade of hearses.


You will enjoy the four main women in this film who are so hysterical and so out of control that you could not spend five minutes with them without them jumping onto you for various violent activities from hitting you to beating you down, to humping you (that is called rape) and refusing any advances from you, men or women, after they have captured your attention and now they detain your bodies. The best one is in the first episode, Mrs. Fisher, the mother calling her husband who is driving a hearse right then to tell him to crush the cigarette she is sure he is smoking, which is true. He does so and gets another one out and when he tries to light it up he runs into a bus. Good morning Mr. Reaper.


It is hilarious when you are confronted at the beginning of each episode with the death of one, two or three, or even more, people who are going to get into the mortuary. You cannot imagine how people can die. There are some berserk and completely insane ways of doing it. Dying is a fine art.

It is hilarious because one child is made by accident out of wedlock and another after many attempts and even a miscarriage. The elder Fisher son is responsible for the first accident and he marries the woman who used to be his best friend in high school or college, or whatever. But one day she disappears and many episodes later the truth will come up: it is so sordid that it becomes hilariously impossible. Then the poor Nate, Nathaniel Samuel, will finally marry and have a second daughter with the woman he met in the first episode on the plane from Seattle to Los Angeles on Christmas eve who dragged him nearly forcefully into the rest rooms or some other cupboard to have a kinky episode of rump riding on the sly in the fast lane.


That relation is just plain absurd. It is marrying fire and water or lemon juice and milk together. It gets sour in a jiffy and they break up and then they go back on the sly, and they announce a first marriage and they have to cancel it and then they will announce a second marriage and that will end in death and sourness. But what a trip around and around the maypole, you can see what I designate with this fairly friendly English device called a maypole with hams and other prizes at the top, if you can climb that high!

Imagine now the younger son who is a closet gay man who comes out of the closet without opening the door that is locked up anyway and they seem to have thrown the key away. He is just as much wavering as his brother about what he is looking for, who is looking for, and many other issues. These two gay men (plus a few more sidekicks) are making everything difficult, even kissing or holding their hands. And they only want to have children, and that too is an adventure. If you do not laugh it’s because you are slightly tight on the gay side. It’s never gay offensive but it is gay hilarious. You might be influenced into getting gay for the fun of it and the great enchanting vivid trip into wonderland and along the yellow road of bricks.


The sister, the youngest Fisher child, is even worse. She goes to art school and she starts having adventures. She is attracted by a lesbian woman and yet at the very moment when she should get active she panics and steps back. Imagine the situation. The lesbians actually are those who are shown as most distant from the core of the story. They remain marginal and unimportant.

The mother and her lovers are by far the best. The mother wants in order not to want and to reject what she wants and is begging for without accepting it when it is offered to her on a platter. She is a Salome of some sort. She is afraid of any kind of amorous and sentimental bodily contact. And she is an obsessive compulsive cleaner and ordering busy beaver chasing dust, dirt and disorder. She is straightening up everything, everybody and everyone with her own crooked and twisted desires and she wonders why people are gesticulating around her when she whips them up and down with a cat-o’-nine-tails and pretends it is thorn-free roses.


Enjoy the trip six feet under and be sure of one thing: there is no ladder to climb out of it. That’s a real treat to die and it is a tearful great extravaganza for those who survive and have to inter the bodies in a way or another, even throw them to sharks if you can.

Dr Jacques COULARDEAU





 

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On ne peut pas reprocher à Guillaume d’ignorer les résultats de la recherche archéologique, anthropologique et historique des dernières vingt années. On peut et on doit cependant clairement montrer les contradictions formelles que ces leçons contiennent. 

Gustave Guillaume pour des raisons qui nous échappent fonctionnait avec deux modèles formels ; un modèle binaire surprenant mais très rhétorique, j’entends digne de la classe de rhétorique du lycée qu’il avait du suivre : « thèse + antithèse = synthèse », formulation largement reprise par Saussure et sa formule « langage = langue + parole » que Guillaume ne fait que transformer en « langage = langue + discours ». 

Cependant dès qu’il entre, à la suite de Meillet fréquemment cité, « chaque langue forme un système où tout se tient et a un plan d’une merveilleuse rigueur. » (256), dans les (sous-)systèmes qui composent le système global d’une langue ou le système encore plus global du langage, il emploie un modèle ternaire très systématique : les trois chronothèses de la chronogenèse, les trois aires de la glossogénie, etc. Il insère cette triade mentale dans le tenseur binaire ce qui donne « langage puissanciel  ||  effection  ||  langage effectif » (285) mais cette effection qui est bien une opération en soi est réduite à un seuil ou centre d’inversion qu’il ne compte alors plus comme une opération ternarisant le tenseur binaire qu’il s’obstine à définir comme binaire.

Cela est étrange mais plus de cinquante ans après le délivrance de ces leçons il est bien sûr impossible de faire l’impasse sur la recherche qui a eu lieu pendant ce demi-siècle et on se doit d’appliquer les trois consignes de Guillaume sans oublier la deuxième de l’exploration de l’effection (« 2. explorer l’effection »). Les linguistes ont du pain sur la planche mais ils se doivent de devenir anthropologues et archéologues s’ils veulent comprendre la langue. 

La question cruciale est : QUELLE EST L’ORIGINE DU LANGAGE ? Cette immense recherche vaut bien un désagréable désagrément avec les créationnistes d’inspiration religieuse ou les innéistes d’inspiration  chomskyenne. Cela permettrait aussi d’ailleurs de comprendre que la Singularité de Ray Kurzweil est, comme son nom l’indique, un peu courte ou singulière.


Research Interests:

Anthropology, Languages and Linguistics, Origin of Language, Ferdinand de Saussure, Phylogeny, Linguistique, Homo Sapiens, Gustave Guillaume, Psychomécanique,migrations out of Africa, and migrations hors d'Afrique



 

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Le mensonge politique est un crime contre l'humanité

Friday, March 27, 2015

 

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TRIPPING ENDLESSLY
ALL ALONG THE DOWNFALL
Jacques COULARDEAU
Illustrations
Annunzio COULARDEAU

CONTENTS
Saint Austremonius   p. 5
Psychophagus   p. 7
Sun Sand and Strife   p. 9
Casus Belli at the Casa Dei   p. 11
Haunted   p. 30
Memory Blocks   p. 45
One Happy Morning   p. 56
Perth Wolfenstein   p. 67
Birds of a Feather   p. 100
Fearless John’s Prayer to the Black Virgin
Of La Chaise-Dieu Abbey church   p. 114


All these poems and stories are dedicated to Lucretia who helped crossing the long depression between the mountain of hostile war and the mountain of reconstruction.
Some people, some events played an enormous role in those years, The University of Perpignan in their Mende unit; the Festival of La Chaise-Dieu and sacred music, music, and music again; Michel Thénot of Central Parc with whom I visited dozens of Romanesque churches running after Black Virgins; in Sri Lanka Sujeewa and Sudarshani and the confrontation with elephants; and then Paris with several life-ghosts who made me recapture life: many were named Arthur but some stand out, Ivan, Paula and Animata. Special mention to Christian Gauchet, Ghalib Hakkak and Père Emmanuel Gobilliard.
They are too numerous to be named all. They are legions and that’s how we survive on this earth, satiated with love, friendship and mental and spiritual experience.

© Jacques COULARDEAU  & Annunzio COULARDEAU

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Money money money, green or blue, euro or dollar, bank or mortgage, money über alles

 

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A écouter et méditer.

Thursday, March 26, 2015

 

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Right at the Bottom of the Urn [Kindle Edition]

Jacques COULARDEAU , 
Annunzio COULARDEAU 

The score is full of notes, filled with notes, notes and bars that have no shape at first, except going up and down, at times clustered in bunches here and there. The composer looks at his score, perfectly and neatly printed in world-class toner on the paper. And he has the sudden envy – and he has that sudden envy every single time he comes to the end of a composition – to be able to take it and shake it and rearrange it all haphazardly, maybe one day even empty it into the kitchen drain or flush all those notes down the toilet in the bathroom. Good riddance.

To Ivan Eve,
at a time when the sky was all smiles

From his Lord Wotton
at a time when he fell for Dorian Gray
the toy of the Lord Shiva of all Perdition
preparing for the shiva’h of his youth
lost in the seven veils of his maturity


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Wednesday, March 25, 2015

 

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La Parole de Saint Chrosome [Explicit]
Jacques Coulardeau

SATAN I LOVE YOU

Yesterday I was alone
All alone in my loneliness
Yesterday I asked Satan
            Who are you?

I am your best friend
Bone skin and flesh at once
I am the light of your mind
Daylight moonlight and sunlight
I am the solace of your heart
Some day the solstice of it […]



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Tuesday, March 24, 2015

 

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OUT OF THE FRINGE
CONTEMPORARY LATINA/LATINO
THEATRE AND PERFORMANCE
Carida SVICH & Maria Teresa MARRERO, Editors
NEW YORK, NY, 2000

READING NOTES AND REVIEWS
Dr Jacques COULARDEAU
Pen Discussion Session

This collection of ten plays is one of the strangest collections I know. Most authors are women. The theme of Chicana women is central and lesbianism is shown as some kind of escape from the Post Colonial Traumatic Stress Syndrome of Chicano men and Chicana women.
Among these plays there is a rewriting of Medea’s myth from this lesbian point of view that is phenomenal in many ways and particularly in the fact that Medea is making herself a lesbian to protect and save her motherhood that leads her to killing her own son not to lose him to his father and hence lose her motherhood, not seeing that she kills her motherhood at the same time, which becomes final in the end when the dead son brings poison to his own institutionalized mother and thus terminates her like some kind of vermin. Out of love . . . for sure!
At the same time the consciousness of that Post Colonial Traumatic Stress Syndrome is not clearly captured which leads to mourning the dead Chicano soldiers in the American imperialistic wars without denouncing these wars per se.
I just wonder if these authors have not integrated themselves too much into American society and particularly American universities that are dealing with Indian or Chicano or Lesbian studies as some kind of attractive gimmicks to have more students. Note the gay theme is nearly totally absent from this collection and yet when mentioned like in the first play of the collection it does not concern Chicanos per se, even if the main part of this first play happens in Las Vegas which is not exactly Chicano or Indian.
Enjoy the reading of the reviews as some kind of introduction to that Chicano and Chicana drama which is anyway essential in American culture today, and not only, far from it, the United States.


1-        LUIS ALFARO – STRAIGHT AS A LINE - 2000
2-        COCO FUSCO & NAO BUSTAMANTE – STUFF – 1996
3-        MIGDALIA CRUZ – FUR, A PLAY IN NINETEEN SCENES – 1995
4-        NILO CRUZ – NIGHT TRAIN TO BOLINA – 1994
5-        NAOMI IIZUKA – SKIN, AN ADAPTATION OF BÜCHNER’S WOYZECK – 1995
6-        OLIVER MAYER – RAGGED TIME – 1994
7-        PEDRO R. MONGE-RAFULS – TRASH, A MONOLOGUE – 1995
8-        CHERRIE MORAGA – THE HUNGRY WOMAN, A MEXICAN MEDEA – 1995
9-        MONICA PALACIOS – GREETINGS FROM A QUEER SENORITA – 1995

10-     CARIDAD SVICH – ALCHEMY OF DESIRE:DEAD-MAN4S BLUES, A PLAY WITH SONGS – 1994

Sunday, March 22, 2015

 

Chicano/a Post Colonial Traumatic Stress Syndrome

This collection of ten plays is one of the strangest collections I know. Most authors are women. The theme of Chicana women is central and lesbianism is shown as some kind of escape from the Post Colonial Traumatic Stress Syndrome of Chicano men and Chicana women. 

Among these plays there is a rewriting of Medea’s myth from this lesbian point of view that is phenomenal in many ways and particularly in the fact that Medea is making herself a lesbian to protect and save her motherhood that leads her to killing her own son not to lose him to his father and hence lose her motherhood, not seeing that she kills her motherhood at the same time, which becomes final in the end when the dead son brings poison to his own institutionalized mother and thus terminates her like some kind of vermin. Out of love . . . for sure! 

At the same time the consciousness of that Post Colonial Traumatic Stress Syndrome is not clearly captured which leads to mourning the dead Chicano soldiers in the American imperialistic wars without denouncing these wars per se. 

I just wonder if these authors have not integrated themselves too much into American society and particularly American universities that are dealing with Indian or Chicano or Lesbian studies as some kind of attractive gimmicks to have more students. Note the gay theme is nearly totally absent from this collection and yet when mentioned like in the first play of the collection it does not concern Chicanos per se, even if the main part of this first play happens in Las Vegas which is not exactly Chicano or Indian. 

Enjoy the reading of the reviews as some kind of introduction to that Chicano and Chicana drama which is anyway essential in American culture today, and not only, far from it, the United States. 

Dr Jacques COULARDEAU 
Olliergues, France, March 22, 2015

 
Publication Date: Mar 22, 2015
 
Publisher: Editions La Dondaine
 
Location: Olliergues
 
Research Interests:

Religion, Chicano Studies, Women's Studies, Postcolonial Studies, Drama In Education, Gay And Lesbian Studies, Aztecs, Chicano/a Literature, Literatura Latinoamericana, Lesbianism, Post traumatic stress disorder, and Anthropology of Religion

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