Scars of Conquest/Masks of Resistance The Invention of Cultural Identities in African, African-American, and Caribbean Drama

Name: Scars of Conquest/Masks of Resistance The Invention of Cultural Identities in African, African-American, and Caribbean Drama
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ISBN: 9780195094053

ISBN-10: 0195094050

ISBN-13: 9780195094053

Edition: 1995

Authors: Tejumola Olaniyan

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Looking in detail at the works of Baraka, Soyinka, Walcott and Shange and their historical trajectories in black anti-Eurocentric discourses, Olaniyan offers a sophisticated reading of how these writers are preoccupied with the invention of a post-imperial cultural identity. Drawing on contemporary theory and cultural studies, Olaniyan provides a meticulous account of the social foundations of an important aesthetic form, the drama of the African diaspora.

Book details

List price: $135.00
Copyright year: 1995
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 6/22/1995
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 208
Size: 6.34" wide x 9.49" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English



Introduction



Contingent "Origins"



Agones: The Constitution of a Practice


A Colonialist Discourse


A Counterhegemonic Discourse


A Post-Afrocentric Discourse



Difference, Differently


The Expressive and the Performative


Cultural Identity as Articulation


Genre


Language



Inventing Cultural Identities



Wole Soyinka: "Race Retrieval" and Cultural Self-Apprehension


Assimilative Wisdom and Period Dialectics


History as Mythopoeic Resource


The Cultural, the Political



LeRoi Jones/Amiri Baraka: The Motion of History


The Violence of Naming


The Protean Essence



Derek Walcott: Islands of History at a Rendezvous with a Muse


History as Culture: The Romance of Adam


Toward Inflammatory Dreams (for the New World Black)


Author as Text and Character


Coherent Deformation and Its Context



Ntozake Shange: The Vengeance of Difference, or The Gender of Black Cultural Identity


Combat Breathing


"A Layin on of Hands"



Subjectivities and Institutions


Notes


Bibliography


Index