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

by Tejumola Olaniyan

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Format Hardback or Cased Book

ISBN-10 0195094050

ISBN-13 9780195094053

Publisher Oxford University Press Inc

Imprint Oxford University Press Inc

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Aug 24th, 1995

Print length 208 Pages

Weight 425 grams

Dimensions 24.10 x 16.10 x 1.90 cms

Product Classification: Literary studies: from c 1900 -Literary studies: plays & playwrights Black & Asian studies

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Examining in detail the dramas of Baraka, Soyinka, Walcott and Shange, this study describes how these black writers are preoccupied with the invention of a postimperial cultural identity. It charts the foundations of an important aesthetic form, the drama of the African diaspora.

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.

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