Staging creolization : women's theater and performance from the French Caribbean /
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...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Charlottesville :
University of Virginia Press,
[2017].
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| Series: | New World studies.
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| 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. |
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| Physical Description: | xiii, 274 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780813940076 0813940079 9780813940083 0813940087 |