Scars of conquest/masks of resistance : the invention of cultural identities in African, African-American, and Caribbean drama / Tejumola Olaniyan
| Author(s): | Olaniyan, Tejumola |
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| Subjects: | American drama--African American authors--History and criticism African Americans in literature Blacks in literature Caribbean Area--In literature Africa--In literature Baraka, Amiri, 1934---Criticism and interpretation Shange, Ntozake--Criticism and interpretation Walcott, Derek--Dramatic works Soyinka, Wole--Dramatic works |
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| Material Type: | Books |
| Language: | English |
| Audience: | Unspecified |
| Published: | New York : Oxford University Press, 1995 |
| LC Classification: | P, PS |
| Table of Contents: | Introduction 3 1. Agones: The Constitution of a Practice 11 2. Difference, Differently 29 3. Wole Soyinka: "Race Retrieval" and Cultural Self-Apprehension 43 4. LeRoi Jones/Amiri Baraka: The Motion of History 67 5. Derek Walcott: Islands of History at a Rendezvous with a Muse 93 6. Ntozake Shange: The Vengeance of Difference, or The Gender of Black Cultural Identity 116 7. Subjectivities and Institutions 139 Notes 143 Bibliography 171 Index 191 |
| Notes: | LCCN: 94033238 ISBN: 0195094050 (hbk. : acid-free paper) ISBN: 0195094069 (pbk. : acid-free paper) Includes bibliographical references (p. 171-190) and index |
| Physical Description: | xii, 196 p. ; 25 cm |
| OCLC Number: | 30976941 |
| ISBN/ISSN: | 0195094050 0195094069 |