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"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" --

Cultural fusion. --- Women in literature. --- Theater --- Caribbean drama (French Creole) --- Culture fusion --- Fusion, Cultural --- Hybridism (Social sciences) --- Hybridity (Social sciences) --- Cultural relations --- Acculturation --- Assimilation (Sociology) --- Ethnicity --- Multiculturalism --- Cultural pluralism --- Woman (Christian theology) in literature --- Women in drama --- Women in poetry --- Dramatics --- Histrionics --- Professional theater --- Stage --- Theatre --- Performing arts --- Acting --- Actors --- Caribbean French Creole drama --- Creole drama, Caribbean French --- French Creole drama, Caribbean --- Caribbean literature (French Creole) --- History --- Women authors --- History and criticism. --- Schwarz-Bart, Simone --- Dambury, Gerty --- Conde, Maryse --- Cesaire, Ina --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Ubu Repertory Theater. --- Cultural hybridity --- Transculturalism --- Transculturation