Book Club: Emily Sahakian, Staging Creolization: Women’s Theatre and Performance from the French Caribbean (available through UB Libraries E-Books) in advance Sahakian’s October 12th talk.

Emily Sahakian (Ph.D., Northwestern University and the École des hautes études en sciences sociales) is Associate Professor of Theatre and French at the University of Georgia. Her first book, Staging Creolization: Women’s Theater and Performance from the French Caribbean (New World Studies Series, University of Virginia Press, 2017), explores the works of a pioneering generation of late twentieth-century female playwrights from Martinique and Guadeloupe, and reconstructs these plays’ international production and reception histories, in the Caribbean, in France, and in English-translation in the United States. With Andrew Daily, she is preparing a translation and bilingual, critical edition of Histoire de nègre (Tale of Black Histories), a Martinican avant-garde play devised collaboratively by Caribbean schoolteachers under Edouard Glissant’s direction in 1971, and she is working with the Compagnie SIYAJ from Guadeloupe to restage the play and renew its potential for dialogic education and anti-racist activism.

Friday, October 12, 11am-12pm, Capen 107 (Honors College)
“Staging Creolization: Renewing the Theatrical Activism of Edouard Glissant”
Emily Sahakian (University of Georgia)
Department of Romance Languages, Department of Theatre and Film Studies
http://www.rom.uga.edu/directory/emily-sahakian

This event is free and open to the public thanks to the sponsorship of the HI Performance Research Workshop, the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, the Department of Theatre and Dance, the Gender Institute, the Honors College and the HI Modernisms Research Workshop.