Andrew Daily is Associate Professor of Modern French and Global History. A scholar of the intellectual and cultural history of postcolonial Europe, he is the author of the forthcoming Radical Sympathies: Anticolonial Activism in Postwar France and the Caribbean (University of Nebraska Press).Emily Sahakian is Associate Professor of Theatre and French at the University of Georgia. A scholar of Caribbean performance and the cultural politics of Francophone theatre, she is the author of Staging Creolization: Women’s Theater and Performance from the French Caribbean (University of Virginia Press, 2017).

"Combined with the rich notes on the cultural references (cogently summarised and presented without ever being reductive) and the truly illuminating staging considerations, this edition of Tale of Black Histories will become a landmark in postcolonial studies, across many disciplines and languages, surely the key contribution of such edition in a domain dominated by English and Spanish. More important, it will inspire schools and universities worldwide to experiment with the play, following Glissant's wishes, and that of the IME team of artists, teachers, and students, reaching out to the new decolonial struggles and reflections currently taking place in world politics." Hugues Azérad, University of Cambridge

• AcknowledgementsIntroduction: History from the AbyssTale of Black Histories, The PlayAppendicesBibliography

Andrew Daily is Associate Professor of Modern French and Global History. A scholar of the intellectual and cultural history of postcolonial Europe, he is the author of the forthcoming Radical Sympathies: Anticolonial Activism in Postwar France and the Caribbean (University of Nebraska Press).Emily Sahakian is Associate Professor of Theatre and French at the University of Georgia. A scholar of Caribbean performance and the cultural politics of Francophone theatre, she is the author of Staging Creolization: Women’s Theater and Performance from the French Caribbean (University of Virginia Press, 2017).

"Combined with the rich notes on the cultural references (cogently summarised and presented without ever being reductive) and the truly illuminating staging considerations, this edition of Tale of Black Histories will become a landmark in postcolonial studies, across many disciplines and languages, surely the key contribution of such edition in a domain dominated by English and Spanish. More important, it will inspire schools and universities worldwide to experiment with the play, following Glissant's wishes, and that of the IME team of artists, teachers, and students, reaching out to the new decolonial struggles and reflections currently taking place in world politics." Hugues Azérad, University of Cambridge

• AcknowledgementsIntroduction: History from the AbyssTale of Black Histories, The PlayAppendicesBibliography