Table of Contents -- Introduction -- PRELUDE -- Have Culture, Will Travel: Cultural Citizenship and the Imagined Communities of Diaspora -- A Fiction -- I: NOVELS AND THEIR BORDERS -- 'Beur' Narratives of Self-Identity: Beyond Boundaries and Binaries -- Allegories of Ambivalence: Scottish Fiction, Britain and Empire -- The Need to Storify: Re-inventing the Past in André Brink's Novels -- The Postcolonial Border: Bessie Head's "The Wind and a Boy" -- The Intimate Presence of Death in the Novels of Zakes Mda: Necrophilic Worlds and Traditional Belief -- Controlling Jean Rhys's Story "On Not Shooting Sitting Birds" -- II: PERFORMING POSSIBILITIES -- Isaac Julien's Looking For Langston and the Limits of the Visible World -- Western Theatrical Performance in Africa and Gender Implications -- Imagining a Nation: The Necessity of Producing Canadian Drama -- The Mask of Aaron: "Tall screams reared out of the Three Mile Plains" - Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus and George Elliott Clarke's Black Acadian Tragedy Execution Poems -- Crossing the Boundary, Donning a Mask: Spatial Rules and Identity in Daniel David Moses' and Tomson Highway's Plays -- III: POETIC SITES OF INTERTEXTUALITY -- I Think I Could Turn Awhile -- How to Really Forget: David Dabydeen's "Creative Amnesia" -- Many Masks, Big Houses: Yeats and the Construction of an Irish Identity -- Transtextual Conceptualizations of Northern Ireland: Paul Muldoon vs Seamus Heaney -- (Un)Masking Possibilities: Bigger Thomas, Invisible Man, and Scooter -- Notes on Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z.