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Olaniyan, Tejumola.

Scars of conquest/masks of resistance : the invention of cultural identities in African, African-American, and Caribbean drama / Tejumola Olaniyan. - New York : Oxford University Press, 1995. - xii, 196 p. ; 25 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 171-190) and index.

1. Agones: The Constitution of a Practice -- 2. Difference, Differently -- 3. Wole Soyinka: "Race Retrieval" and Cultural Self-Apprehension -- 4. LeRoi Jones/Amiri Baraka: The Motion of History -- 5. Derek Walcott: Islands of History at a Rendezvous with a Muse -- 6. Ntozake Shange: The Vengeance of Difference, or The Gender of Black Cultural Identity -- 7. Subjectivities and Institutions.

ISBN: 0195094050 (hbk. : acidfree paper) 0195094069 (pbk. : acidfree paper)

LCCN: 94033238

Subjects--Personal Names:
Baraka, Amiri, 1934-2014 --Criticism and interpretation.
Shange, Ntozake--Criticism and interpretation.
Walcott, Derek--Dramatic works.
Soyinka, Wole--Dramatic works.

Subjects--Topical Terms:
American drama--African American authors--History and criticism.
African Americans in literature.
Blacks in literature.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Caribbean Area--In literature.
Africa--In literature.

LC Class. No.: PS338.N4 / O43 1995

Dewey Class. No.: 809.2/008996073