Staging Creolization - Women's Theater and Performance from the French Caribbean

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 latae-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.

A propos de l'auteur

Emily Sahakian is Assistant Professor of Theater and French at the University of Georgia, Athens.

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Emily Sahakian
• Edition: University of Virginia Press
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre de poche
• Sortie: 30.06.2017
• EAN: 9780813940083
• ISBN: 978-0-8139-4008-3
• Pages: 312
• Thèmes: New World Studies (Paperback); New World Studies
• Catégories: Littérature > Poésie, théâtre; Sciences humaines, art, musique > Linguistique et littérature > Linguistique et littérature romanes