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

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

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