Friday, December 03, 2021
Slavery finds it hard to die in the USA.
Jacques COULARDEAU
Honorary Visiting Lecturer
Université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne
L’HISTOIRE, RÉVÉLATRICE DISSIMULATION
ou
HISTORY, A WHITEWASHING APOCALYPSE
BLACK THEATER MATTERS
à GÉNIALE ANNA DEAVERE SMITH
ASIN
: B09MWMFHQ5 (Kindle e-Book à Amazon, 5 euros)
Éditeur
: Éditions La Dondaine; 1ère édition (1er
décembre 2021)
Langue
: Français (et sections bilingues français-anglais)
Synthèse vocale
: Activée
Nombre de pages de l'édition imprimée
: 139 pages
TABLE OF
CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION (bilingue, bilingual)
Il
faudra bien plus qu’une seule messe…
It will take much
more than one single mass …
ARTICLE PRINCIPAL (français, avec citations longues
bilingues)
L’HISTOIRE,
RÉVÉLATRICE DISSIMULATION
ou
HISTORY, A
WHITEWASHING APOCALYPSE
NOTES DE LECTURE (Toutes bilingues – All bilingual)
TOM
TAYLOR – NOTRE COUSIN D’AMÉRIQUE – 1865 – CACHEZ CE SANG BLEU QUE JE NE SAURAIS
BOIRE
JEAN
GENET – HAUTE SURVEILLANCE – 1949 – LA LIBÉRATION DANS LA MORT PROMISE PAR LA
LAME
JEAN
GENET – LE CONDAMNÉ À MORT ET AUTRES POÈMES SUIVI DE LE FUNAMBULE – NRF
GALLIMARD – 1999 (1942,1945, 1947, 1948, 1958,1979) – DÉPENDANCE AMOUREUSE
TOTALE ET MORBIDE
BERTRAND TAVERNIER
– DEATHWATCH – LA MORT EN DIRECT – 1980 – UNE APOCALYPSE DE PLUS
DEATHWATCH – 2002 –
ANACHRONIQUE – LA GUERRE N’EST QUE VANITÉ PERVERSE
BIBLIOGRAPHIE
NOTES
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Dérive Morale
Graduelle
Gradual Moral
Slippage
Anna Deavere-Smith
explores in this play a fundamental theme in American history, the fact that basic
ethical and social issues are caught up in a systematic drift – a downward
slippage in her terms – that reduces them to superficial events without any deep
value. Thus, the issue of slavery is ignored and replaced by the failures and
missteps of Bill Clinton with a Caucasian intern in the White House. The press
has become an essential part of the President's staging of himself (not herself
yet) and his action. This already old play (end of the previous century) could
not take into account the evolution of the last twenty years, and yet it shows
something essential. When agitprop theater tries to reveal something hidden by
an artificial ideological construction, it identifies a tree that was hidden,
but this tree in turn hides the forest and conceals something else. Denouncing
the crime against humanity that slavery was in the United States is tantamount
to hiding the extraordinary resistance of the slaves who thus produced the
ferment that gave rise to a world culture that is now largely dominant. If we
only see the whip, we forget the rhythmic melodies of the slaves who thus
controlled their productivity and produced our present culture. Any simulation
may reveal a hidden truth, a revelation in Biblical meaning, an apocalypse, but
it, in turn, hides another truth. Doesn't agitprop theater itself become a downward
slippage which brings some good feeling to Huckleberry Finn, but what about human
history after Bill Clinton’s sexual slippage?