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Staging creolization : women's theater and performance from the French Caribbean / Emily Sahakian.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: New world studiePublication details: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, (c)2017.Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780813940076
  • 9780813940090
Other title:
  • Women's theater and performance from the French Caribbean
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • PQ3943 .S734 2017
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
Contents:
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.
Subject: "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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Includes bibliographies and index.

"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 --

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.

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