Staging creolization : women's theater and performance from the French Caribbean /
Sahakian, Emily,
Staging creolization : women's theater and performance from the French Caribbean / Women's theater and performance from the French Caribbean Emily Sahakian. - Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, (c)2017. - 1 online resource. - New world studie .
Includes bibliographies and index.
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.
"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 --
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Césaire, Ina--Criticism and interpretation.
Condé, Maryse--Criticism and interpretation.
Dambury, Gerty--Criticism and interpretation.
Schwarz-Bart, Simone--Criticism and interpretation.
Ubu Repertory Theater.
Caribbean drama (French Creole)--History and criticism.
Caribbean drama (French Creole)--Women authors--History and criticism.
Theater--History--Caribbean, French-speaking--20th century.
Women in literature.
Cultural fusion.
Electronic Books.
PQ3943 / .S734 2017
Staging creolization : women's theater and performance from the French Caribbean / Women's theater and performance from the French Caribbean Emily Sahakian. - Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, (c)2017. - 1 online resource. - New world studie .
Includes bibliographies and index.
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.
"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 --
9780813940076 9780813940090
Césaire, Ina--Criticism and interpretation.
Condé, Maryse--Criticism and interpretation.
Dambury, Gerty--Criticism and interpretation.
Schwarz-Bart, Simone--Criticism and interpretation.
Ubu Repertory Theater.
Caribbean drama (French Creole)--History and criticism.
Caribbean drama (French Creole)--Women authors--History and criticism.
Theater--History--Caribbean, French-speaking--20th century.
Women in literature.
Cultural fusion.
Electronic Books.
PQ3943 / .S734 2017