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Staging creolization : women's theater and performance from the French Caribbean / Emily Sahakian.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sahakian, Emily, author.
- Series:
- New World studies
- New Word Studies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Césaire, Ina--Criticism and interpretation.
- Césaire, Ina.
- Condé, Maryse--Criticism and interpretation.
- Condé, Maryse.
- Dambury, Gerty--Criticism and interpretation.
- Dambury, Gerty.
- Schwarz-Bart, Simone--Criticism and interpretation.
- Schwarz-Bart, Simone.
- Ubu Repertory Theater.
- Caribbean drama (French Creole)--History and criticism.
- Caribbean drama (French Creole).
- Caribbean drama (French Creole)--Women authors--History and criticism.
- Theater--Caribbean, French-speaking--History--20th century.
- Theater.
- Women in literature.
- Cultural fusion.
- History.
- Women authors.
- Criticism and interpretation.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 274 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Other Title:
- Women's theater and performance from the French Caribbean
- Place of Publication:
- Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2017.
- Summary:
- "Emily Sahakian examines plays by Ina Césaire, Maryse Condé, Gerty Dambury, and Simone Schwarz-Bart that premiered in the French Caribbean or in France in the 1980s and 1990s and soon thereafter traveled to the United States. Sahakian argues that these late-twentieth-century plays by French Caribbean women writers dramatize and enact creolization -- the process of cultural transformation through mixing and conflict that occurred in the context of the legacies of slavery and colonialism" -- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Unsettling the gendered stereotypes of plantation culture: Ina Cesaire's Rosanie Soleil and Maryse Conde's Pension les Alizes
- Remixing unity and difference: Maryse Conde's An tan revolisyon, Ina Cesaire's Memoires d'isles and Gerty Dambury's Lettres indiennes
- Syncretizing performance and moral code: Ina Cesaire's L'enfant des passages and Simone Schwarz-Bart's Ton beau capitaine
- Diaspora performances at Ubu Repertory Theater in New York
- Recasting the Francophone Caribbean couple at Ubu Repertory Theater
- Coda: creolizing knowledge in U.S. university performances.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [249]-263) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780813940076
- 0813940079
- 9780813940083
- 0813940087
- OCLC:
- 965145257
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