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Staging creolization : women's theater and performance from the French Caribbean Cover Image

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Staging creolization : women's theater and performance from the French Caribbean

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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ISBN: 0813940087
ISBN: 9780813940083
ISBN: 0813940095
ISBN: 9780813940090
ISBN: 0813940079
ISBN: 9780813940076
Physical Description: 1 online resource
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Publisher: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2017.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	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.
Source of Description Note:	Print version record.