Introduction PRELUDE Wenche OMMUNDSEN: Have Culture, Will Travel: Cultural Citizenship and the Imagined Communities of Diaspora; A Fiction I NOVELS AND THEIR BORDERS Priscilla RINGROSE: ‘Beur’ Narratives of Self-Identity: Beyond Boundaries and Binaries Alan FREEMAN: Allegories of Ambivalence: Scottish Fiction, Britain and Empire Ute KAUER: The Need to Storify: Re-inventing the Past in André Brink’s Novels Johan SCHIMANSKI: The Postcolonial Border: Bessie Head’s “The Wind and a Boy” David BELL: The Intimate Presence of Death in the Novels of Zakes Mda: Necrophilic Worlds and Traditional Belief Ulla RAHBEK: Controlling Jean Rhys’s Story “On Not Shooting Sitting Birds” II PERFORMING POSSIBILITIES Asbiørn GRØNSTAD: Isaac Julien’s Looking For Langston and the Limits of the Visible World Evelyn LUTWAMA: Western Theatrical Performance in Africa and Gender Implications Anne NOTHOF: Imagining a Nation: The Necessity of Producing Canadian Drama Susan KNUTSON: 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: Kristina AURYLAITĖ: Crossing the Boundary, Donning a Mask: Spatial Rules and Identity in Daniel David Moses’ and Tomson Highway’s Plays III POETIC SITES OF INTERTEXTUALITY Geoff PAGE: I Think I Could Turn Awhile Erik FALK: How to Really Forget: David Dabydeen’s “Creative Amnesia” Charles ARMSTRONG: Many Masks, Big Houses: Yeats and the Construction of an Irish Identity Ruben MOI: Transtextual Conceptualizations of Northern Ireland: Paul Muldoon vs Seamus Heaney Jacquelynne MODESTE : (Un)Masking Possibilities: Bigger Thomas, Invisible Man, and Scooter Notes on Contributors Index