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

by Emily Sahakian

In Staging Creolization, Emily Sahakian examines seven plays by Ina C saire, Maryse Cond , 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813940079
• ISBN13: 9780813940076
• Release Date: July 2017
• Publisher: University of Virginia Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.17 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.1"