Staging Creolization (eBook)

Women's Theater and Performance from the French Caribbean

Emily Sahakian (Autor)

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2017
296 Seiten
University of Virginia Press (Verlag)
978-0-8139-4009-0 (ISBN)

Infos

In Staging Creolization, Emily Sahakian examines seven 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.Sahakian here theorizes creolization as a performance-based process, dramatized by French Caribbean women's plays and enacted through their international production and reception histories. The author contends that the syncretism of the plays is not a static, fixed creole aesthetics but rather a dynamic process of creolization in motion, informed by history and based in the African-derived principle that performance is a space of creativity and transformation that connects past, present, and future.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 20.7.2017
• Reihe/Serie: New World Studies
• Reihe/Serie: New World Studies
• Zusatzinfo: 18 b&w illus.
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 150 x 150 mm
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
• Schlagworte: abandonment of ambition • African • black identity • candomble rituals • Caribbean • Chestnut stereotype • Creole language use • Creolization • Cynthia Belgrave • Derek Walcott • Diaspora • ethics • Fernando Ortiz • Gerty Dambury • Haitian Revolution • heterosexual love • Hierarchy • Ina Césaire • Intercultural Theater • Literacy • Literary movements • male-centric • Maryse Condé • moral effects • Napoleon Bonaparte • ogbanje child concept • Overdetermination • Performance • performance approach • Poet • Quimbois • quotidian • Race • racial caste system • Recasting • Reunion Island • Romance • Simone Schwarz-Bart • Slavery • Subversive • subversive messages • the politics of translation • Vodou
• ISBN-10: 0-8139-4009-5 / 0813940095
• ISBN-13: 978-0-8139-4009-0 / 9780813940090