Set at the methodological intersection of theatre studies and Caribbean cultural and literary studies, Emily Sahakian's Staging Creolization meditates on theories and practices of creolization, with a focus on gender and sexuality. The book takes up plays by four twentieth-century Guadeloupean and Martinican intellectuals from France's Caribbean territories - Maryse Conde, Ina Cesaire, Gerty Dambury, and Simone Schwarz-Bart - focusing specifically on those plays that encouraged transnational interchanges among French, American, and African diasporic audiences through the New York City-based Ubu Repertory Theater of the 1990s.Sahakian's reconstruction of the plays on the basis of archival research and performance analysis provides a valuable addition to studies of intercultural and postcolonial theatre, and her demonstration of creolization as a process of performance makes this book essential for Caribbean specialists. Staging Creolization points a way toward researching, writing, and teaching phenomena that defy methodologies seeking to impose clear definitions by adopting approaches that protect their dynamic and continuous transformations.