Includes bibliographical references (pages [249]-263) and index.
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.
Summary:
"Emily Sahakian examines plays by Ina Césaire, Maryse Condé, 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" -- Provided by publisher.
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