
Staging Creolization
Women's Theatre and Performance Frm the French Caribbean
Emily Sahakian(Author)
University of Virginia Press
Published on 30. July 2017
Book
Hardback
312 pages
978-0-8139-4007-6 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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.
Reviews / Votes
"Sahakian's work is impeccably researched, impressively documented, and original in its bringing together cultural analysis, textual analysis, and performance analysis."-Judith G. Miller, New York University, coeditor of Plays by French and Francophone Women: A Critical AnthologyMore details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Charlottesville
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
18 black & white illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 22 mm
Weight
634 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8139-4007-6 (9780813940076)
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Person
Emily Sahakian is Assistant Professor of Theater and French at the University of Georgia, Athens.