Author: Ama Ata Aidoo
Publisher:
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Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 128

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Author: Ama Ata Aidoo
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 1496201094
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 276

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"Ama Ata Aidoo is one of the best-known African writers today. Spanning three decades of work, the poems in this collection address themes of colonialism, independence, motherhood, and gender in intimate, personal ways alongside commentary on broader social issues. After the Ceremonies is arranged in three parts: new and uncollected poems, some of which Aidoo calls "misplaced or downright lost"; selections from Aidoo's An Angry Letter in January and Other Poems; and selections from Someone Talking to Sometime. Although Aidoo is best known for her novels Changes: A Love Story and Our Sister Killjoy, which are widely read in women's literature courses, and her plays The Dilemma of a Ghost and Anowa, which are read and performed all over the world, her prowess as a poet shines in this collection"--

Author: Neil Roberts
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 9781405113618
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 652

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In the twentieth century more people spoke English and more people wrote poetry than in the whole of previous history, and this Companion strives to make sense of this crowded poetical era. The original contributions by leading international scholars and practising poets were written as the contributors adjusted to the idea that the possibilities of twentieth-century poetry were exhausted and finite. However, the volume also looks forward to the poetry and readings that the new century will bring. The Companion embraces the extraordinary development of poetry over the century in twenty English-speaking countries; a century which began with a bipolar transatlantic connection in modernism and ended with the decentred heterogeneity of post-colonialism. Representation of the 'canonical' and the 'marginal' is therefore balanced, including the full integration of women poets and feminist approaches and the in-depth treatment of post-colonial poets from various national traditions. Discussion of context, intertextualities and formal approaches illustrates the increasing self-consciousness and self-reflexivity of the period, whilst a 'Readings' section offers new readings of key selected texts. The volume as a whole offers critical and contextual coverage of the full range of English-language poetry in the last century.

Author: Gale, Cengage Learning
Publisher: Gale, Cengage Learning
ISBN: 1410354008
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 27

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Author: Ama Ata Aidoo
Publisher: Heinemann
ISBN: 9780435910136
Category : Fiction in English
Languages : en
Pages : 164

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In this collection of short stories, Aidoo elevates the mundane in women's lives to an intellectual level in an attempt at challenging patriarchal structures and dominance in African society.

Author: John Ciardi
Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
ISBN: 9781610753708
Category : Poets, American
Languages : en
Pages : 506

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Author: Helen Gilbert
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136218173
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 484

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This collection of contemporary postcolonial plays demonstrates the extraordinary vitality of a body of work that is currently influencing the shape of contemporary world theatre. This anthology encompasses both internationally admired 'classics' and previously unpublished texts, all dealing with imperialism and its aftermath. It includes work from Canada, the Carribean, South and West Africa, Southeast Asia, India, New Zealand and Australia. A general introduction outlines major themes in postcolonial plays. Introductions to individual plays include information on authors as well as overviews of cultural contexts, major ideas and performance history. Dramaturgical techniques in the plays draw on Western theatre as well as local performance traditions and include agit-prop dialogue, musical routines, storytelling, ritual incantation, epic narration, dance, multimedia presentation and puppetry. The plays dramatize diverse issues, such as: *globalization * political corruption * race and class relations *slavery *gender and sexuality *media representation *nationalism

Author: Ted Hughes
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0374525811
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 213

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The past contemporary poet gives an account in 88 poems in letter form of hisromance and the life spent with Sylvia Plath.

Author: Kofi Anyidoho
Publisher: Rodopi
ISBN: 9789042012738
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 404

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Includes articles, annotated filmography, interviews, creative writing, and book reviews.

Author: Barbara H. Solomon
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101617446
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 402

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Encompassing many different visions of Africa, the stories in this comprehensive collection feature characters struggling to survive grinding poverty, tyrannical governments, cultural upheavals, and disintegrating relationships. Reflecting a continent with a tragic history, An African Quilt depicts a place where even everyday life is extraordinary, and the continent’s history changes what it means to be a woman, an employee, a couple, a passerby, and, of course, a citizen. Revealed through the backdrop of postcolonial Africa, the struggles within these stories resonate beyond their context and appeal to every reader’s sense of what it means to be human. Includes Stories by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Nadine Gordimer (Winner of the Nobel Prize), Bessie Head, Doris Lessing (Winner of the Nobel Prize), Ngugi wa Thiong’o, and Others