Staging Creolization - Women's Theatre and Performance frm the French Caribbean (Hardcover)

In Staging Creolization, Emily Sahakian examines seven plays by Ina Cesaire, Maryse Conde, 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.

General

Imprint:	University of Virginia Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	New World Studies Modern Language Initiative
Release date:	June 2017
Authors:	Emily Sahakian
Dimensions:	229 x 152mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover - Cloth over boards
Pages:	312
ISBN-13:	978-0-8139-4007-6
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > Performing arts > Theatre, drama > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gender studies > Women's studies > General Promotions
LSN:	0-8139-4007-9
Barcode:	9780813940076

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