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Emerging Perspectives on Ama Ata Aidoo, This ambitious and comprehensive volume of essays, edited by two committed scholars, mirrors a collection of insights, analyses and approaches to the works by Ghana's foremost woman writer, who has prevailed for over thirty years on the African literature, Emerging Perspectives on Ama Ata Aidoo
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  • Emerging Perspectives on Ama Ata Aidoo
  • Written by author Africa World Press Staff, Ada U. Azodo, Gay Wilentz
  • Published by Africa Research & Publications, 1999/03/23
  • This ambitious and comprehensive volume of essays, edited by two committed scholars, mirrors a collection of insights, analyses and approaches to the works by Ghana's foremost woman writer, who has prevailed for over thirty years on the African literature
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Dedication
Introduction: A Breath of Fresh Air
Reading the Critical Writer 3
Unwelcome Pals and Decorative Slaves or Glimpses of Women as Writers and Characters in Contemporary African Literature 11
Slavery in the Diaspora Consciousness: Ama Ata Aidoo's Conversations 27
Ama Ata Aidoo and the African Diaspora: Things "All Good Men and Women Try to Forget," But I Will Not Let Them 45
Diasporic Ruptures and (Re)membering History: Africa as Home and Exile in Anowa and The Dilemma of a Ghost 61
The Politics of Exile: Reflections of a Black-Eyed Squint in Our Sister Killjoy 79
Transnationality and Its Critique: Narrative Tropes of "Borderland" in Our Sister Killjoy 93
Narrative Turns in Ama Ata Aidoo's No Sweetness Here 127
Inverting the Institutions: Ama Ata Aidoo's No Sweetness Here and Deconstructive Theory 145
Ama Ata Aidoo: The Development of a Woman's Voice 157
Of Those Who Went Before 171
The Risk of (Re)membering My Name: Reading Lucy and Our Sister Killjoy as Travel Narratives 187
The Dilemma of a Ghost: Literature and Power of Myth 213
The Bird of the Wayside: From An Angry Letter ... to The Girl Who Can 241
The Language of Endurance in the Short Stories of Ama Ata Aidoo 255
African Woman's Domain: Demarcating Political Space in Nwapa, Sutherland and Aidoo 265
Flabberwhelmed or Turning History on its Head?: The Postcolonial Woman-as-Subject in Aidoo's Changes: A Love Story 281
The Politics of Mothering: Multiple Subjectivity and Gendered Discourse in Aidoo's Plays 303
"Strange As It May Seem": African Feminism in Two Novels by Ama Ata Aidoo 333
Free But Lost: Variations in the Militant's Song 363
Sexual Politics and Phallocentric Gaze in Ama Ata Aidoo's Changes: A Love Story 377
The Multifaceted Aidoo: Ideologue, Scholar, Writer, and Woman 399
Facing the Millennium: An Interview with Ama Ata Aidoo 429
Afterword: Interviewing and Transcribing a Writer-Oral Artist 443
Selected Bibliography of and on Ama Ata Aidoo 457
Notes on Contributors 467
About the Editors 472
Index 473


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