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- catalog abstract ""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 scene by her sheer tenacity of purpose and the freshness of her writing. Ama Ata Aidoo comes across as a sturdy, well-rounded, dignified and reputable writer of world class, not only in the originality, complexity and sophistication of her thoughts, but also in the diversity of the possibilities in her writing. Students of cultural politics, international relations, womens' studies, history and African studies will find this anthology a compelling resource."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b11061951.
- catalog contributor b11061952.
- catalog coverage "Developing countries In literature.".
- catalog coverage "Ghana In literature.".
- catalog created "c1999.".
- catalog date "1999".
- catalog date "c1999.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1999.".
- catalog description ""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 scene by her sheer tenacity of purpose and the freshness of her writing. Ama Ata Aidoo comes across as a sturdy, well-rounded, dignified and reputable writer of world class, not only in the originality, complexity and sophistication of her thoughts, but also in the diversity of the possibilities in her writing. Students of cultural politics, international relations, womens' studies, history and African studies will find this anthology a compelling resource."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Flabberwhelmed or turning history on its head? : the postcolonial woman-as-subject in Aidoo's Changes, a love story / Juliana Makuchi Nfah-Abbenyi -- "Strange as it may seem" : African feminism in two novels by Ama Ata Aidoo / Sally McWilliams -- Free but lost : variations in the militant's song / Pauline Onwubiko Uwakweh -- Sexual politics and phallocentric gaze in Ama Ata Aidoo's Changes, a love story / Miriam C. Gyimah -- Multifaceted Aidoo : ideologue, scholar, writer, and woman / Ada Uzoamaka Azodo -- Facing the millennium : an interview with Ama Ata Aidoo / Ada Uzoamaka Azodo -- Afterword : interviewing and transcribing a writer-oral artist / Ada Uzoamaka Azodo.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [457]-466) and index.".
- catalog description "Introduction : a breath of fresh air / Ada Uzoamaka Azodo and Gay Wilentz -- Reading the critical writer / Gay Wilentz -- Unwelcome pals and decorative slaves or glimpses of women as writers and characters in contemporary African literature / Ama Ata Aidoo -- Slavery in the diaspora consciousness : Ama Ata Aidoo's conversations / Angeletta K.M. Gourdine -- Ama Ata Aidoo and the African diaspora : things "all good men and women try to forget," but I will not let them / Mildred A. Hill-Lubin -- Diasporic ruptures and (re)membering history : Africa as home and exile in Anowa and The dilemma of a ghost / Maureen N. Eke -- Politics of exile : reflections of a black-eyed squint in Our sister Killjoy / Gay Wilentz -- Transnationality and its critique : narrative tropes of "borderland" in Our sister Killjoy / Haiping Yan -- Narrative turns in Ama Ata Aidoo's No sweetness here / Naana Jane Opoku-Agyemang -- Inverting the institutions : Ama Ata Aidoo's No sweetness here and deconstructive theory / Linda Strong-Leek -- Ama Ata Aidoo : the development of a woman's voice / Arlene A. Elder -- Of those who went before / Kenneth W. Harrow -- Risk of (re)membering my name : reading Lucy and Our sister Killjoy as travel narratives / Paula Morgan -- Dilemma of a ghost : literature and the power of myth / Ada Uzoamaka Azodo -- Bird of the wayside : from An angry letter ... to The girl who can / Vincent Okpoti Odamtten -- Language of endurance in the short stories of Ama Ata Aidoo / Peter Wilfred Stine -- African woman's domain : demarcating political space in Nwapa, Sutherland and Aidoo / Gay Wilentz.".
- catalog extent "a-k, xxviii, p. 481 :".
- catalog hasFormat "Emerging perspectives on Ama Ata Aidoo.".
- catalog identifier "0865435804".
- catalog identifier "0865435812 (pbk.)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Emerging perspectives on Ama Ata Aidoo.".
- catalog issued "1999".
- catalog issued "c1999.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Trenton, NJ : Africa World Press,".
- catalog relation "Emerging perspectives on Ama Ata Aidoo.".
- catalog spatial "Developing countries In literature.".
- catalog spatial "Ghana In literature.".
- catalog spatial "Ghana".
- catalog subject "828 21".
- catalog subject "Aidoo, Ama Ata, 1942- Criticism and interpretation.".
- catalog subject "PR9379.9.A35 Z65 1999".
- catalog subject "Women and literature Ghana History 20th century.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Flabberwhelmed or turning history on its head? : the postcolonial woman-as-subject in Aidoo's Changes, a love story / Juliana Makuchi Nfah-Abbenyi -- "Strange as it may seem" : African feminism in two novels by Ama Ata Aidoo / Sally McWilliams -- Free but lost : variations in the militant's song / Pauline Onwubiko Uwakweh -- Sexual politics and phallocentric gaze in Ama Ata Aidoo's Changes, a love story / Miriam C. Gyimah -- Multifaceted Aidoo : ideologue, scholar, writer, and woman / Ada Uzoamaka Azodo -- Facing the millennium : an interview with Ama Ata Aidoo / Ada Uzoamaka Azodo -- Afterword : interviewing and transcribing a writer-oral artist / Ada Uzoamaka Azodo.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Introduction : a breath of fresh air / Ada Uzoamaka Azodo and Gay Wilentz -- Reading the critical writer / Gay Wilentz -- Unwelcome pals and decorative slaves or glimpses of women as writers and characters in contemporary African literature / Ama Ata Aidoo -- Slavery in the diaspora consciousness : Ama Ata Aidoo's conversations / Angeletta K.M. Gourdine -- Ama Ata Aidoo and the African diaspora : things "all good men and women try to forget," but I will not let them / Mildred A. Hill-Lubin -- Diasporic ruptures and (re)membering history : Africa as home and exile in Anowa and The dilemma of a ghost / Maureen N. Eke -- Politics of exile : reflections of a black-eyed squint in Our sister Killjoy / Gay Wilentz -- Transnationality and its critique : narrative tropes of "borderland" in Our sister Killjoy / Haiping Yan -- Narrative turns in Ama Ata Aidoo's No sweetness here / Naana Jane Opoku-Agyemang -- Inverting the institutions : Ama Ata Aidoo's No sweetness here and deconstructive theory / Linda Strong-Leek -- Ama Ata Aidoo : the development of a woman's voice / Arlene A. Elder -- Of those who went before / Kenneth W. Harrow -- Risk of (re)membering my name : reading Lucy and Our sister Killjoy as travel narratives / Paula Morgan -- Dilemma of a ghost : literature and the power of myth / Ada Uzoamaka Azodo -- Bird of the wayside : from An angry letter ... to The girl who can / Vincent Okpoti Odamtten -- Language of endurance in the short stories of Ama Ata Aidoo / Peter Wilfred Stine -- African woman's domain : demarcating political space in Nwapa, Sutherland and Aidoo / Gay Wilentz.".
- catalog title "Emerging perspectives on Ama Ata Aidoo / edited and introduced by Ada Uzoamaka Azodo & Gay Wilentz.".
- catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".