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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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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Charlottesville :
University of Virginia Press,
2017.
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| Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
| Summary: | "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"-- |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (296 pages). |
| ISBN: | 9780813940090 |