Essays in Honour of Ama Ata Aidoo at 70: A Reader in African Cultural Studies
This erudite collection of writings from leading lights in the African literary community pays tribute to Ama Ata Aidoo through a broad spectrum of articles and personal memoirs from scholars of different generations and from other literary artists. The book conveys the full parameters of Aidoo’s place as a literary innovator and exponent of radical, social and cultural thought in Africa and internationally; especially on issues of African self-consciousness and gender equality. This important book is a celebration of Aidoo and her continuing commitment to elevate African writing on the world stage. She is one of Africa’s most courageous writers in her belief in Africans telling their own stories in a globalized world that often tends to marginalize the continent.
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Essays in Honour of Ama Ata Aidoo at 70: A Reader in African Cultural Studies
This erudite collection of writings from leading lights in the African literary community pays tribute to Ama Ata Aidoo through a broad spectrum of articles and personal memoirs from scholars of different generations and from other literary artists. The book conveys the full parameters of Aidoo’s place as a literary innovator and exponent of radical, social and cultural thought in Africa and internationally; especially on issues of African self-consciousness and gender equality. This important book is a celebration of Aidoo and her continuing commitment to elevate African writing on the world stage. She is one of Africa’s most courageous writers in her belief in Africans telling their own stories in a globalized world that often tends to marginalize the continent.
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Essays in Honour of Ama Ata Aidoo at 70: A Reader in African Cultural Studies

Essays in Honour of Ama Ata Aidoo at 70: A Reader in African Cultural Studies

Essays in Honour of Ama Ata Aidoo at 70: A Reader in African Cultural Studies

Essays in Honour of Ama Ata Aidoo at 70: A Reader in African Cultural Studies

Overview

This erudite collection of writings from leading lights in the African literary community pays tribute to Ama Ata Aidoo through a broad spectrum of articles and personal memoirs from scholars of different generations and from other literary artists. The book conveys the full parameters of Aidoo’s place as a literary innovator and exponent of radical, social and cultural thought in Africa and internationally; especially on issues of African self-consciousness and gender equality. This important book is a celebration of Aidoo and her continuing commitment to elevate African writing on the world stage. She is one of Africa’s most courageous writers in her belief in Africans telling their own stories in a globalized world that often tends to marginalize the continent.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780956930705
Publisher: Ayebia Clarke Publishing
Publication date: 12/19/2012
Pages: 544
Product dimensions: 6.25(w) x 9.25(h) x 1.70(d)

About the Author

Anne V. Adams is Professor Emerita in Africana Studies and Comparative Literature at Cornell University. She served for five years as Director of the W.E.B. Du Bois Memorial Centre for Pan African Culture in Accra, Ghana. A former President of the African Literature Association (ALA), her research and publications focus on gender in African Diaspora Literatures and include (co-ed) Ngambika and Essays in Honour of Ama Ata Aidoo At 70: A Reader in Cultural Studies.

Table of Contents

Libation for Ama Ata Aidoo Atukwei Okai x

Introduction: "Someone Should Lend Me a Tongue" Anne V. Adams 1

Foreword: An Open Letter to Ama Ata Aidoo Margaret Busby 12

I "That is the story I am telling you. I am taking you to bird town, so I can't understand why you insist on searching for eggs from the suburb!" (From: No Sweetness Here) 16

Three Female Writers in Modern Africa: Flora Nwapa, Ama Ata Aidoo and Grace Ogot Maryse Condé 19

A Conversation: Ama Ata Aidoo with Micere Githae Mugo Micere Mugo 29

II "Because surely in our environment there are more important things to write about?" (From: Changes) 46

The Amistad's Legacy: Reflections on the Spaces of Colonisation Toyin Falola 48

Radical, Comparative Postcolonialism and the Contemporary Crisis of Disciplinary Identities: Outline of a Prolegomenon Biodun Jeyifo 63

Literary Visions of a 21st Century Africa: A Note on the Pan African Ideal in Ghanaian Literature Kofi Anyidoho 80

Writing for the Child in a Fractured World Naana Jane Opoku-Agyemang 86

Who is an African? Helen Lauer 98

The Longevity of Whiteness and Ama Ata Aidoo's Our Sister Killjoy Susan Arndt 110

Psychoanalysis, Gender and Narratives of Women's Friendships in Ama Ata Aidoo's Writing Nana Wilson-Tagoe 122

Teaching Aidoo: Theorising via Creative Writing Ketu H. Katrak 138

III "Every woman and every man should be a feminist - especially if they believe that Africans should take charge of our land, its wealth, our lives, and the burden of our own development." (From: "Literature, Feminism and the African Woman Today")|p147

Nervous Masculinities: Male Characters in Ama Ata Aidoo's Changes Mary Jane Androne 149

Gendering Commodity Relations in Ama Ata Aidoo's Changes: A Love Story Ram Prasansak 161

African Women and Power: Ama Ata Aidoo's Essays "To Be a Woman" and 'The African Woman Today" Cheryl Toman 176

She-Kings in the Trinity of Being: The Budding Girl-Child in Ama Ata Aidoo's Short Stories Naana Banyiwa Horne 188

Black Women of a Certain Age, Power and Presence: Ama Ata Aidoo's and Toni Morrison's Carole Boyce Davies 207

Towards Alternative Representations of Women in African Cultural Products Awo Mana Asiedu Akosua Adomako Ampofo 219

Ties that Bound: Slave Concubines/Wives and the End of Slavery in the Gold Coast, c.1874-1900 Emmanuel Akyeampong 231

IV "[A] mixture of complete sweetness and smoky roughage. … Oh, Africa. Crazy old continent…" (From: Our Sister Killjoy) 241

A Historical Case Study of a Slave Girl in Asante Mampong Akosua Perbi 243

Anowa, Paradoxical Queenmother of the Diaspora Sue Houchins 257

The Call to the Priesthood and Other Stories in Ama Ata Aidoo's Anowa James Gibbs 277

Yesterday's Quarrels and Today's Playmates: Peacemaking and the Proverbial Wisdom of Africa Kofi Asare Opoku 287

Not Just for Children Anymore: Aidoo's The Eagle and the Chickens and Questions of Identity Vincent O. Odamtten 295

Someone Talking to Sometime: A Dialogue Across Time and Space Jane Bryce 301

'Tribal Scars" on the Body of "The Girl Who Can": The Imperative of African Social and Cultural Self-Redemption in the Short Stories of Aidoo and Sembène Anne V. Adams 317

Mfantse Meets English: Interpretations of Ama Ata Aidoo's Multilingual Idiom Esi Sutherland-Addy 329

Disobedient Subversions: Anowa's Unending Quest Omofolabo Ajayi-Soyinka 347

African Theatre and the Menace of Transition: Radical Transformations in Popular Entertainment Femi Osofisan 362

Emerging Issues from Big Brother Africa 5: Reflections on Reality TV, the Celebrity Status and Gender Mansah Prah 374

Mac Tontoh: The Saga of a Broken Trumpet Kwesi Yankah 396

V "So as for this woman e be She-King" (From: The Girl Who Can and Other Stories) Tributes 402

For the Eagle Who Taught the Chickens the Meaning of Flight Abena Busia 403

In Praise of Ama Ata Aidoo's Novel, Changes Yaba Badoe 404

Ama Ata Aidoo: Whose Dilemma Could It Be? Ivor Agyeman-Duah 407

Marginal Notes: The Mbaasem/Daily Graphic Writers' Page Helen Yitah 415

Reminiscences from Exile Kari Dako 421

AAA - The Mind Reader and the Reading Mind Chikwenye Okonjo Ogunyemi 424

Ama Ata Aidoo: A Personal Celebration Ngugi Wa Thiong'o 426

Reference Documents on the Life and Work of Ama Ata Aidoo 429

A Bibliography of Writing by and on Ama Ata Aidoo: A Compilation in Progress James Gibbs 430

Chronology of the First Seventy Years in the Life of Ama Ata Aidoo Kinna Likimani 471

Notes on Contributors 476

Notes 482

Index 526

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