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

Author: Tejumola Olaniyan
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Format: Paperback
Condition: Used
Pages: 208.0
Published: Jun 22, 1995

Tejumola Olaniyan offers a groundbreaking comparative study of English‑language drama from Africa, the African‑American community, and the Caribbean. Through close readings of playwrights such as Amiri Baraka, Wole Soyinka, Derek Walcott, and Ntozake Shange, Olaniyan explores how Black drama serves as a dynamic site for inventing post‑colonial cultural identity shaped by intersecting discourses like Eurocentrism, Afrocentrism, and Post‑Afrocentrism