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 identied in his 1906 essay, On the
Psychology of the Uncanny. Jentschs concept was furthered by Freud in his 1919
essay, The Uncanny.