Jason Allen-Paisant
Biographic Data
| ID | 1369758 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jason Allen-Paisant |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jason |
| FAMILY NAME | Allen-Paisant |
| SIGNATURE | ALLEN-PAISANT J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Leeds |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5705-0522 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Guest Editors' Note
Joie et insécurité à Port-au-Prince
« Nous résistons pour ne pas prendre la fuite »
Qu’est-ce qu’un théâtre postcolonial
« Une écriture habitée »
Face à l’histoire coloniale
Sounding the Body
This essay is a study of Credences at the Altar of Cloud , Anthony McNeill’s (1979) second collection of poems. It explores the ethos behind McNeill’s sound poetics, and the ways in which musical soundcapes of the 1970s influence the formal workings of these poems. On a broader level, the essay suggests a framework for thinking about the relationship between music, spirituality, and the poetic process in the Afro-diasporic context. The essay situ…
Thinking with Spirits, or Dwelling and Knowing in the Work of Aimé Césaire
This article discusses Aimé Césaire's ethical commitment to more-than-human existence. The intention is not to read Césaire as an 'eco-poet', or through the lens of contemporary 'eco-poetics', terms which might not have meant much to him in the period from the 1930s to the 1950s, when his poetic project took shape. Even if we may today read Césaire's poetry in the light of contemporary eco-poetic and eco-philosophical thought, this article is mor…
Theater of Ancestral Mediation
Miracson Saint-Val's work begins with personal experience, with corporeal practice, with the lwas—the spirits of Vodou—with which he wishes to experiment. But he also needs to find the right text. According to this Haitian director, Chemin de fer, the text by the Congolese writer Julien Mabiala Bissila, lends itself perfectly to the lines of enquiry that underlie his creative imagination, namely, a language based on the body, on Black bodies caug…
Sounding body
The Circle – Notes Towards a Topography of Afro-diasporic Time
Rituals and Worldbuilding
The following is a transcript of a roundtable discussion between Camille Quamina, Senior Lecturer in the School of Drama at the Edna Manley College of the Visual and Performing Arts, Kingston, Jamaica; Marvin George, Dean of the School of Drama at the Edna Manley College; Honor Ford-Smith, Associate Professor of Cultural and Artistic Practices for Environmental and Social Justice at York University in Toronto, Canada; and Jason Allen-Paisant, Ass…
Unthinking philosophy
Energised by his concern with the place of poetry in and as philosophy, Césaire’s work is engaged in thinking knowledge, a praxis which becomes fundamental to his critique of the ideology of imperialism. The concern with poetry as magical thinking and the question of what it contributes to philosophy, and more particularly, to epistemology, takes on pressing importance in the light of colonialism, whose domination is predicated on the hegemonic d…
Penser et jouer l'absurde dans le théâtre haïtien
Cet article propose une lecture critique de Chemin de fer , pièce de théâtre écrite par le Congolais Julian Mabiala Bissila et mise en scène par le comédien haïtien Miracson Saint-Val dans le cadre du Festival Quatre Chemins en Haïti (2017). A travers la manifestation de la violence dans l'œuvre, nous verrons que se dégage une esthétique de la performance de l'absurde qui lie la représentation scénique de la pièce au travail de l'écriture, les de…
Raising the ghosts of justice
I examine the staging of time, justice and performance in The Trial of Governor Eyre, investigating what this site-specific performance reveals about the experience of time in the context of colonial violence. In doing so, I show that the work's discourse on temporality reflects a vital sense of performativity within an Afro-diasporic context. The work's use of temporality, besides reflecting a cultural adaptation, allows for a remoulding of form…
Reading Wilson Harris with Gilles Deleuze
This article is an attempt at reading Wilson Harris with Gilles Deleuze, considering how the latter’s writings on the image might produce a fresh understanding of Harris’s art of fiction. To do this, I highlight the interest that both Harris and Deleuze have in the theatre as a medium for illustrating their conception of the image in language and thought. Discussing mainly the novel Carnival, I show how Harris assimilates narrative to the theatri…
Obituary
Contraindre le chaos à devenir forme
Cet article soutient que le traumatisme persistant du colonialisme donne lieu à une crise analogue à celle de la descente aux enfers (ou catabase) dans l’oeuvre théâtrale Et les chiens se taisaient, dans laquelle sont révélés les schémas profonds qui façonnent la poétique d’Aimé Césaire. Proposant une analyse de l’oeuvre ancrée dans la “poétique de la Relation” (paradigme fourni par Édouard Glissant), cet article vise à montrer les façons dont Cé…
Un-Dad Elegy
Un-Dad Elegy Jason Allen-Paisant (bio) We sit on the barbecueBrother B and i twirling grass straws in our mouthswatching the sun go down Mama pours out water from the druminto the bath pan and tin the mento bandplucks out a tune in the church below the hillit's night meeting time tonight i will get intothe spirit rise from my body and fly away like Mother Puseywhen she claps those hands each clap sends silencethrough the galaxy lifts her through …
Aimé Césaire andThe Divine Comedy
This article offers a close reading of the lyrical drama And the Dogs Were Silent, and Aimé Césaire's unique deployment of a Dantean imaginary. It argues, specifically, that Dante's "symbolic process" in the Commedia provides a metaphorical structure for the hero's initiation in this work and for the poet's articulation of a philosophy of postcolonial relationality. Showing how Dante's katabasis is used to analogize the creative power of Césaire'…
Unthinking philosophy
Energised by his concern with the place of poetry in and as philosophy, Césaire’s work is engaged in thinking knowledge, a praxis which becomes fundamental to his critique of the ideology of imperialism. The concern with poetry as magical thinking and the question of what it contributes to philosophy, and more particularly, to epistemology, takes on pressing importance in the light of colonialism, whose domination is predicated on the hegemonic d…
Penser et jouer l'absurde dans le théâtre haïtien
Cet article propose une lecture critique de Chemin de fer , pièce de théâtre écrite par le Congolais Julian Mabiala Bissila et mise en scène par le comédien haïtien Miracson Saint-Val dans le cadre du Festival Quatre Chemins en Haïti (2017). A travers la manifestation de la violence dans l'œuvre, nous verrons que se dégage une esthétique de la performance de l'absurde qui lie la représentation scénique de la pièce au travail de l'écriture, les de…
Reading Wilson Harris with Gilles Deleuze
This article is an attempt at reading Wilson Harris with Gilles Deleuze, considering how the latter’s writings on the image might produce a fresh understanding of Harris’s art of fiction. To do this, I highlight the interest that both Harris and Deleuze have in the theatre as a medium for illustrating their conception of the image in language and thought. Discussing mainly the novel Carnival, I show how Harris assimilates narrative to the theatri…
Aimé Césaire andThe Divine Comedy
This article offers a close reading of the lyrical drama And the Dogs Were Silent, and Aimé Césaire's unique deployment of a Dantean imaginary. It argues, specifically, that Dante's "symbolic process" in the Commedia provides a metaphorical structure for the hero's initiation in this work and for the poet's articulation of a philosophy of postcolonial relationality. Showing how Dante's katabasis is used to analogize the creative power of Césaire'…
Raising the ghosts of justice
I examine the staging of time, justice and performance in The Trial of Governor Eyre, investigating what this site-specific performance reveals about the experience of time in the context of colonial violence. In doing so, I show that the work's discourse on temporality reflects a vital sense of performativity within an Afro-diasporic context. The work's use of temporality, besides reflecting a cultural adaptation, allows for a remoulding of form…
Contraindre le chaos à devenir forme
Cet article soutient que le traumatisme persistant du colonialisme donne lieu à une crise analogue à celle de la descente aux enfers (ou catabase) dans l’oeuvre théâtrale Et les chiens se taisaient, dans laquelle sont révélés les schémas profonds qui façonnent la poétique d’Aimé Césaire. Proposant une analyse de l’oeuvre ancrée dans la “poétique de la Relation” (paradigme fourni par Édouard Glissant), cet article vise à montrer les façons dont Cé…
Un-Dad Elegy
Un-Dad Elegy Jason Allen-Paisant (bio) We sit on the barbecueBrother B and i twirling grass straws in our mouthswatching the sun go down Mama pours out water from the druminto the bath pan and tin the mento bandplucks out a tune in the church below the hillit's night meeting time tonight i will get intothe spirit rise from my body and fly away like Mother Puseywhen she claps those hands each clap sends silencethrough the galaxy lifts her through …
Aimé Césaire andThe Divine Comedy
This article offers a close reading of the lyrical drama And the Dogs Were Silent, and Aimé Césaire's unique deployment of a Dantean imaginary. It argues, specifically, that Dante's "symbolic process" in the Commedia provides a metaphorical structure for the hero's initiation in this work and for the poet's articulation of a philosophy of postcolonial relationality. Showing how Dante's katabasis is used to analogize the creative power of Césaire'…
Reading Wilson Harris with Gilles Deleuze
This article is an attempt at reading Wilson Harris with Gilles Deleuze, considering how the latter’s writings on the image might produce a fresh understanding of Harris’s art of fiction. To do this, I highlight the interest that both Harris and Deleuze have in the theatre as a medium for illustrating their conception of the image in language and thought. Discussing mainly the novel Carnival, I show how Harris assimilates narrative to the theatri…
Obituary
Penser et jouer l'absurde dans le théâtre haïtien
Cet article propose une lecture critique de Chemin de fer , pièce de théâtre écrite par le Congolais Julian Mabiala Bissila et mise en scène par le comédien haïtien Miracson Saint-Val dans le cadre du Festival Quatre Chemins en Haïti (2017). A travers la manifestation de la violence dans l'œuvre, nous verrons que se dégage une esthétique de la performance de l'absurde qui lie la représentation scénique de la pièce au travail de l'écriture, les de…
Raising the ghosts of justice
I examine the staging of time, justice and performance in The Trial of Governor Eyre, investigating what this site-specific performance reveals about the experience of time in the context of colonial violence. In doing so, I show that the work's discourse on temporality reflects a vital sense of performativity within an Afro-diasporic context. The work's use of temporality, besides reflecting a cultural adaptation, allows for a remoulding of form…
Unthinking philosophy
Energised by his concern with the place of poetry in and as philosophy, Césaire’s work is engaged in thinking knowledge, a praxis which becomes fundamental to his critique of the ideology of imperialism. The concern with poetry as magical thinking and the question of what it contributes to philosophy, and more particularly, to epistemology, takes on pressing importance in the light of colonialism, whose domination is predicated on the hegemonic d…
Sounding body
The Circle – Notes Towards a Topography of Afro-diasporic Time
Rituals and Worldbuilding
The following is a transcript of a roundtable discussion between Camille Quamina, Senior Lecturer in the School of Drama at the Edna Manley College of the Visual and Performing Arts, Kingston, Jamaica; Marvin George, Dean of the School of Drama at the Edna Manley College; Honor Ford-Smith, Associate Professor of Cultural and Artistic Practices for Environmental and Social Justice at York University in Toronto, Canada; and Jason Allen-Paisant, Ass…
Joie et insécurité à Port-au-Prince
« Nous résistons pour ne pas prendre la fuite »
Qu’est-ce qu’un théâtre postcolonial
« Une écriture habitée »
Face à l’histoire coloniale
Sounding the Body
This essay is a study of Credences at the Altar of Cloud , Anthony McNeill’s (1979) second collection of poems. It explores the ethos behind McNeill’s sound poetics, and the ways in which musical soundcapes of the 1970s influence the formal workings of these poems. On a broader level, the essay suggests a framework for thinking about the relationship between music, spirituality, and the poetic process in the Afro-diasporic context. The essay situ…
Thinking with Spirits, or Dwelling and Knowing in the Work of Aimé Césaire
This article discusses Aimé Césaire's ethical commitment to more-than-human existence. The intention is not to read Césaire as an 'eco-poet', or through the lens of contemporary 'eco-poetics', terms which might not have meant much to him in the period from the 1930s to the 1950s, when his poetic project took shape. Even if we may today read Césaire's poetry in the light of contemporary eco-poetic and eco-philosophical thought, this article is mor…
Theater of Ancestral Mediation
Miracson Saint-Val's work begins with personal experience, with corporeal practice, with the lwas—the spirits of Vodou—with which he wishes to experiment. But he also needs to find the right text. According to this Haitian director, Chemin de fer, the text by the Congolese writer Julien Mabiala Bissila, lends itself perfectly to the lines of enquiry that underlie his creative imagination, namely, a language based on the body, on Black bodies caug…
Guest Editors' Note
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