Book contents
- Theater, War, and Revolution in Eighteenth-Century France and Its Empire
- Reviews
- Theater, War, and Revolution in Eighteenth-Century France and Its Empire
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction Performance, Revolution, and the Military–Theatrical Complex
- Chapter 1 From tragédie nationale to pièce militaire: Pierre-Laurent de Belloy’s Le Siège de Calais
- Chapter 2 Military Masculinities, Dramaturgical Manipulation, and the Desertion Play
- Chapter 3 Performing on the Periphery: Military–Theatrical Experiences at the Théâtre de la Marine (Brest) and the Comédie du Cap (Cap-Français)
- Chapter 4 Total Theater for Total War: Military Dramas and Performances of the French Revolution
- Chapter 5 Femmes soldats and Militarized Domesticity: Women at War in French Revolutionary Theater
- Conclusion The Military–Theatrical Complex of Revolutionary Saint-Domingue
- Bibliography
- Index
Conclusion - The Military–Theatrical Complex of Revolutionary Saint-Domingue
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 09 November 2023
- Theater, War, and Revolution in Eighteenth-Century France and Its Empire
- Reviews
- Theater, War, and Revolution in Eighteenth-Century France and Its Empire
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction Performance, Revolution, and the Military–Theatrical Complex
- Chapter 1 From tragédie nationale to pièce militaire: Pierre-Laurent de Belloy’s Le Siège de Calais
- Chapter 2 Military Masculinities, Dramaturgical Manipulation, and the Desertion Play
- Chapter 3 Performing on the Periphery: Military–Theatrical Experiences at the Théâtre de la Marine (Brest) and the Comédie du Cap (Cap-Français)
- Chapter 4 Total Theater for Total War: Military Dramas and Performances of the French Revolution
- Chapter 5 Femmes soldats and Militarized Domesticity: Women at War in French Revolutionary Theater
- Conclusion The Military–Theatrical Complex of Revolutionary Saint-Domingue
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
This conclusion returns to Saint-Domingue, which by the 1790s was rife with Jacobin sentiment, rebellions of enslaved Black laborers and free people of color, and intra-military disaccord. Provided are several short case studies of soldier violence and political action, which offer several limitations and conclusions to the eighteenth-century military–theatrical complex. Unlike the expansive national–military theatrical phenomenon in metropolitan France, the continued commitment to inequality and segregation in Saint-Domingue led to the disintegration of its white-centric theatrical institutions and practices – an important step in what would become the Haitian Revolution.
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