VèVè A. Clark Bibliography and Other Resources


VèVè Clark Book Covers

For those interested in Dr. Clark's published work, we provide the following list of titles currently searchable through the WorldCat database. Dr. Clark's personal papers—offering insight into decades of her intellectual and pedagogical efforts—currently reside at Berkeley's Bancroft Library. As yet, however, they remain unprocessed and therefore unavailable to the public. For those interested in Dr. Clark's legacy and the vision she held for her students and for the academy, we encourage you to submit a "Notice of Interest in Unprocessed Collections" form requesting access to these archives. We hope that, sooner rather than later, they can be made available and, alongside the persistence of her work in other forms, inspire many more generations of thinkers and creators.

Dr. Clark's course materials are being processed by the Mills College Special Collections Archive and will hopefully be available for viewing in the near future.


As author, editor, or co-editor:


"The Archaelogy of Black Theatre." The Black Scholar. 10.10 (1979): 43-56.

"Enough of the Blues, the Year's Work in Black Theatre, 1978: a Biblioreview." The Black Scholar. 11.1 (1979): 69-80. Print.

"Katherine Dunham's Tropical Revue." Black American Literature Forum. 16.4 (1982): 147-152.

"Contemporary Forms of Popular Theatre in Haiti." Ufahamu. 12 (1983): 93-100.

Fieldhands to Stagehands in Haiti: the Measure of Tradition in Haitian Popular Theatre. Ann Arbor, Mich.: University Microfilms International, 1984.

Haiti's Tragic Overture: Statecraft and Stagecraft in Plays by Glissant, Trouillot and Césaire. 1984.

"Haiti's Brechtian Playwrights." Communications from the International Brecht Society / Douglas College, German Department. 13 (1984).

The Legend of Maya Deren: A Documentary Biography and Collected Works. New York: Anthology Film Archives, 1988.

"Interview with Barbara Ward July 21, 1989." Callaloo. (1989): 637-643.

"'I Have Made Peace with My Island': an Interview with Maryse Condé." Callaloo. (1989): 87-133.

"Foreword." Theatre Research International. 15.3 (1990): 209-211. Print.

"Developing Diaspora Literacy: Allusion in Maryse Condé's 'hérémakhonon'." Out of the Kumbla : Caribbean Women and Literature. (1990): 303-319. Print.

Haitian Studies Association Proceedings: Second Annual Conference, June 15-16, 1990, Tufts University, Medford, Ma. Medford, MA: Tufts University, 1991.

Reading between the Black and White Keys: Deep Crossings in African Diaspora Studies : Proceedings of the St. Clair Drake Greaduate Cultural Studies Forum, Series 2, Spring 1994, African American Studies Department, University of California at Berkeley. Berkeley, Calif.: The Forum, 1994.

"When Womb Waters Break: the Emergence of Haitian New Theatre (1953-1987): to the Memory of Lee Hildreth." Journal of Haitian Studies. 1.1 (1995): 89-100.

"Neg Rich Se Youn Milat, Milat Pov Se Youn Neg: Rethinking Haitian Relations—from Epistemes, Political Cultures, and Identities to Scholarship and Pedagogy." Journal of Haitian Studies. 2.1 (1996): 7-21.

Kaiso!: Writings by and About Katherine Dunham. Madison, Wis: University of Wisconsin Press, 2006.

African and Afro-Caribbean Performance: A Special Issue Commemorating Fifty Years of Theatre Survey ; Dedicated to the Memory of Vèvè Amasasa Clark, 1944-2007. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 2009.

"Developing Diaspora Literacy and Marasa Consciousness." Theatre Survey. 50.1 (2009): 9-18.

Anti-feminism in the Academy. Hoboken: Taylor and Francis, 2014.


As contributor:


Higonnet, Margaret R. Borderwork: Feminist Engagements with Comparative Literature. Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, 1994.

Lashgari, Deirdre. Violence, Silence, and Anger: Women's Writing As Transgression. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1995.

Sloat, Susanna. Caribbean Dance from Abakuá to Zouk: How Movement Shapes Identity. Gainesville Fla: University Press of Florida, 2002.