Buch
Sammelband
Broadening the horizon : critical introductions to Amma Darko
Herausgegeben von:
Odamtten, Vincent O.
Banbury:
Ayebia Clarke Publ.
,
2007
,
150 S.
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| Einrichtung: | Frauensolidarität | Wien |
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| Herausgegeben von: | Odamtten, Vincent O. |
| Jahr: | 2007 |
| Maße: | 233mm x 151mm |
| ISBN: | 0954702387 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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| This collection of essays from eight academics in the field brings a number of critical perspectives to focus on the signal work of a 21st Century Ghanaian writer. Amma Darko is recognised in these interdisciplinary critiques, as a significant writer whose storytelling talent documents for generations of African and other readers, the continent's globalization pains. What is revealed in this collection is a complex writer, who knows how to tell a good story, yet is confident enough in her art to deliver a stinging and unflinching criticism of what Ghana has become as it, and its people, are evermore enmeshed in the web of global capitalism. The contributors critically situate the work of Amma Darko within the context of post-independence Ghanaian and continental writers, such as Ayi Kwei Armah, Ama Ato Aidoo, Mariama Ba, and Florence Nwapa. As a fitting and challenging voice in the arena of literary production, Amma Darko's novels have elicited sophisticated readings and represent a variety of ideological perspectives, and to some extent, divergent positions in feminist, deconstructive and postcolonial criticisms. Vincent O. Odammtten: Introduction: Beyond the comfort zone (S. 1); Louise Allen Zak: Amma Darko: Writing her way (S. 12); Monica Bungaro: Victims and/or victimisers? Women's de(con)structive power in The Housemaid (S. 28); Sean P. O'Connell, Vincent O. Odamtten: Licit desires, alien bodies and the economics of invisibility in Amma Darko's Beyond the Horizon and Stephen Frears' Dirty Pretty Things (S. 48); Marie Ellen (Ellie) Higgins: Ngambika and grassroots fiction: Amma Darko's The Housemaid and Faceless (S. 58); Carmela Garritano: Amma Darko's The Housemaid and the gendering of novel and nation (S. 71); Angsotinge, Dako, Denkabe, Yitah: Exploitation, negligence and violence: gendered interrelationships in Amma Darko's novels (S. 81); Vincent O. Odammtten: Amma Darko's Beyond the Horizon: Vending the dream and other traumas for the obedient daughter (S. 100); Naana Banyiwa Horne: Sage, muse, crone: The grandmother in Amma Darko's novels (S. 111); Amma Darko: Breaking the shell: our customs, our traditions and the Pan-African dream; or rethinking Pan-Africanism - keynote address (S. 135) | |
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