{"product_id":"staging-creolization-emily-sahakian-9780813940083","title":"Staging Creolization: Women's Theater and Performance from the French Caribbean","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eStaging Creolization, \u003c\/i\u003e Emily Sahakian examines seven 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSahakian 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Emily Sahakian\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0813940087\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780813940083\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Virginia Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/20\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 296\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.00lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.80d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/01\/2018","brand":"Emily Sahakian","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48241107271935,"sku":"9780813940083","price":40.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_21f29da0-1700-445b-a814-1540c659ff1c.jpg?v=1772652759","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/staging-creolization-emily-sahakian-9780813940083","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}