By Emily Sahakian

In Staging Creolization, Emily Sahakian examines seven
performs by means of Ina Césaire, Maryse Condé, Gerty Dambury, and Simone Schwarz-Bart that
premiered within the French Caribbean or in France within the Eighties and Nineteen Nineties and shortly thereafter
traveled to the us. Sahakian argues that those late-twentieth-century performs by means of French
Caribbean ladies writers dramatize and enact creolization—the strategy of cultural transformation
via blending and clash that happened within the context of the legacies of slavery and
colonialism.

Sahakian the following theorizes creolization as a performance-based
technique, dramatized by means of French Caribbean women’s performs and enacted via their
overseas creation and reception histories. the writer contends that the syncretism of the
performs isn't a static, mounted creole aesthetics yet relatively a dynamic strategy of creolization in
movement, educated by means of heritage and established within the African-derived precept that functionality is a
area of creativity and transformation that connects earlier, current, and
future.

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