Staging Creolization: Women's Theater and Performance from the French Caribbean Contributor(s): Sahakian, Emily (Author) |
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ISBN: 0813940087 ISBN-13: 9780813940083 Publisher: University of Virginia Press OUR PRICE: $34.65 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: July 2017 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Caribbean & Latin American - Drama | European - General |
Dewey: 842.914 |
LCCN: 2017001105 |
Series: New World Studies |
Physical Information: 0.8" H x 5.9" W x 8.9" (1.00 lbs) 296 pages |
Themes: - Cultural Region - Latin America |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: In Staging Creolization, Emily Sahakian examines seven plays by Ina C saire, Maryse Cond , 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. Sahakian here theorizes creolization as a performance-based process, dramatized by French Caribbean women's plays and enacted through their international production and reception histories. The author contends that the syncretism of the plays is not a static, fixed creole aesthetics but rather a dynamic process of creolization in motion, informed by history and based in the African-derived principle that performance is a space of creativity and transformation that connects past, present, and future. |