| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 196 pages) |
| Contents |
Introduction; I: Contingent "Origins"; 1. Agones: The Constitution of a Practice; 2. Difference, Differently; II: Inventing Cultural Identities; 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; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; W; X; Y; Z |
| Summary |
This original work redefines and broadens our understanding of the drama of the English-speaking African diaspora. Looking closely at the work of Amiri Baraka, Nobel prize-winners Wole Soyinka and Derek Walcott, and Ntozake Shange, the author contends that the refashioning of the collective cultural self in black drama originates from the complex intersection of three discourses: Eurocentric, Afrocentric, and Post-Afrocentric. From blackface minstrelsy to the Trinidad Carnival, from the Black Aesthetic to the South African Black Consciousness theatres and the scholarly debate on the (non)exist |
| Analysis |
English drama By Black persons |
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United States |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-190) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Baraka, Amiri, 1934-2014 -- Criticism and interpretation
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Shange, Ntozake -- Criticism and interpretation
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Walcott, Derek -- Dramatic works
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Soyinka, Wole -- Dramatic works
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| SUBJECT |
Baraka, Amiri, 1934-2014 fast |
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Shange, Ntozake fast |
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Soyinka, Wole fast |
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Walcott, Derek fast |
| Subject |
American drama -- African American authors -- History and criticism
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African Americans in literature.
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Black people in literature
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TRAVEL -- Special Interest -- Literary.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- General.
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African Americans in literature
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American drama -- African American authors
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Black people in literature
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Criticism and interpretation
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Literature
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| SUBJECT |
Caribbean Area -- In literature
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Africa -- In literature
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| Subject |
Africa
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Caribbean Area
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
94033238 |
| ISBN |
1423735722 |
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9781423735724 |
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1602560277 |
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9781602560277 |
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9780195357509 |
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0195357507 |
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9780195094053 |
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0195094050 |
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9780195094060 |
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0195094069 |
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1280449861 |
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9781280449864 |
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9780199855278 |
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0199855277 |
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