Death and the Kings Horseman

Death and the Kings Horseman by Wole Soyinka

General thoughts

Master-Narratives and

Post-Modernity

Death and the Kings Horseman by Wole Soyinka

Plays structure

5 acts

Foiling

characters

Death and the Kings Horseman by Wole Soyinka

Postcolonial readings

Rituals, ceremonies, and

performances

The Other and the practice of Othering

Death and the Kings Horseman by Wole Soyinka

Of Mimicry and Man: The Ambivalence of Colonial Discourse

Challenges to Enlightenment and Humanist

arguments

The authority of that mode of colonial discourse that I have called mimicry is therefore stricken by an indeterminacy: mimicry emerges as the representation of a difference that is itself a process of disavowal. Mimicry is, thus, the sign of a double articulation; a complex strategy of reform, regulation, and discipline, which appropriates the Other as it visualizes power.

Almost the same but not white: the visibility of mimicry is always produced at the site of interdiction.

Death and the Kings Horseman by Wole Soyinka

Schechners feedback loop and Restored Behavior

Death and the Kings Horseman by Wole Soyinka

Close but not quite white

Disrupting the essence of the colonizer and revealing

their own constructednesstheir own performance

Colonizer/Essence Colonized/Mimic

Disrupts the idea of an essence

Death and the Kings Horseman by Wole Soyinka

The term was coined by the robotics professor Masahiro Mori in 1970 and is linked to Ernst Jentschs concept of The Uncanny identified in his 1906 essay, On the Psychology of the Uncanny. Jentschs concept was furthered by Freud in his 1919 essay, The Uncanny.