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

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"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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Sahakian, Emily (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2017.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Schwarz-Bart, Simone.
Dambury, Gerty.
Conde, Maryse.
Cesaire, Ina > Criticism and interpretation.
Conde, Maryse > Criticism and interpretation.
Dambury, Gerty > Criticism and interpretation.
Schwarz-Bart, Simone > Criticism and interpretation.
Ubu Repertory Theater.
Women in literature.
Theater.
Cultural fusion.
Caribbean drama (French Creole)
LITERARY CRITICISM > Caribbean & Latin American.
DRAMA > Continental European.
Double appartenance (Sciences sociales)
Femmes dans la litterature.
Theâtre > Antilles francophones > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Theâtre antillais (creole français) > Histoire et critique.
Theater > Caribbean, French-speaking > History > 20th century.
Caribbean drama (French Creole) > Women authors > History and criticism.
Caribbean drama (French Creole) > History and criticism.
Caribbean Area, French-speaking.
History.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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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