@article{10272/21023,
year = {2021},
url = {http://hdl.handle.net/10272/21023},
abstract = {This article examines the complex issue of Black heroism through
the legacy of the figure of the enslaved Portuguese woman
Angélique, who set Montreal on fire in 1734. It looks into how
late-20th-century artists have engaged in recuperating this figure
through the analysis of two specific iterations, the plays of Lorena
Gale (Angélique, 1999) and George Elliott Clarke (Beatrice Chancy,
1999). The article contributes to critical readings to date in arguing
that these texts represent the enslaved subject as agent and not as
victim, in line with recent changes in Black historiography, and that
they constitute cultural interventions that aim to bring into focus
the still largely unaddressed history of Black enslavement in
Canada. Further, it adds a consideration of the plays’ currency
nowadays insofar as their plot and characterization stress continuities
between past and present struggles against pervasive forms of
anti-Black violence.},
publisher = {Routledge},
title = {The legacy of Angélique in late 20th-century Black Canadian drama},
doi = {10.1080/17449855.2021.2010793},
author = {Cuder Domínguez, María Pilar},
}