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

"Emily Sahakian examines 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 Car...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Sahakian, Emily (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2017.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:"Emily Sahakian examines 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"--
Descripción Física:1 online resource (296 pages).
ISBN:9780813940090