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Aidoo, Ama Ata - ämˈä ätäˈä īˈdoo (Christina Ama Ata Aidoo), 1942–, Ghanaian author, poet, and playwright, grad. Univ. of Ghana (B.A., 1964). Combining traditional African storytelling with Western genres, she writes of the contemporary roles of African women and the negative impact of Western influences on African culture. Her

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Rethinking the Specter: Ama Ata Aidoo's Anowa, in Mosaic (Winnipeg) » Read Now
by Assimina Karavanta. 16 pgs.

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To be an African Working Woman: Levels of Feminist Consciousness in Ama Ata Aidoo's Changes, in Research in African Literatures » Read Now
by Nada Elia. 12 pgs.

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Arms Akimbo: Africana Women in Contemporary Literature (Chap. 6 "'Devouring Gods' and 'Sacrificial Animals': The Male-Female Relationship in Ama Ata Aidoo's Changes: A Love Story" and Chap. 11 "The Politics of Exile: Ama Ata Aidoo's Our Sister Killjoy") » Read Now
by Yakini Belinda Kemp, Janice Lee Liddell. 268 pgs.

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Edited collection of essays examining the fiction of contemporary Africana women including Ama Ata Aidoo, Shirley Anne Williams, Ntozake Shange, Flora Nwapa, Maryse Conde, Elizabeth Nunez Harrell, Jamaica Kinkaid and others.
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Reading the Shape of the World: Toward an International Cultural Studies (Chap. 14 "In Search of Sweetness: The Diaspora as a Cultural Idea in the Work of Ama Ata Aidoo") » Read Now
by Richard Dienst, Henry Schwarz. 341 pgs.

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Gender and Germanness: Cultural Productions of Nation (Chap. 15 "Germany Is Full of Germans Now: Germanness in Ama Ata Aidoo's Our Sister Killjoy and Chantal Akerman's Meetings with Anna") » Read Now
by Patricia Herminghouse, Magda Mueller. 346 pgs.

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The contributors to this volume pursue the standards of the cultural debate in German history, literature, visual arts, and language over a period of 300 years in sections devoted to History and the Canon, Visual Culture, Language and Power.
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Black Women, Writing, and Identity: Migrations of the Subject (Chap. 3 "Deconstructing African Female Subjectivities: Anowa's Borderlands") » Read Now
by Carole Boyce Davies. 230 pgs.

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Black Women Writing and Identity is an exciting work by one of the most imaginative and acute writers around. The book explores a complex and fascinating set of interrelated issues, establishing the significance of such wide-ranging subjects as:* re-mapping, re-naming and cultural crossings*...
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Black Women Writing and Identity is an exciting work by one of the most imaginative and acute writers around. The book explores a complex and fascinating set of interrelated issues, establishing the significance of such wide-ranging subjects as:* re-mapping, re-naming and cultural crossings* tourist ideologies and playful world travelling* gender, heritage and identity* African women's writing and resistance to domination* marginality, effacement and decentering* gender, language and the politics of locationCarole Boyce-Davies is at the forefront of attempts to broaden the discourse surrounding the representation of and by black women and women of colour. Black Women Writing and Identity represents an extraordinary achievement in this field, taking our understanding of identity, location and representation to new levels.
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Gender in African Women's Writing: Identity, Sexuality, and Difference (Chap. 2 "(Re)Constructing Identity and Subjectivity: Buchi Emecheta, Ama Ata Aidoo, Tsitsi Dangarembga") » Read Now
by Juliana Makuchi Nfah-Abbenyi. 188 pgs.

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A Reader's Companion to the Short Story in English (Discussion of Ama Ata Aidoo begins on p. 12) » Read Now
by Erin Fallon, R. C. Feddersen, James Kurtzleben, Maurice A. Lee, Susan Rochette-Crawley. 432 pgs.

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Though many outstanding novels have been written in the last century, most of these novelists have also been short story writers. This reference is a guide to contemporary English-language short story writers and their works. Included are alphabetically arranged entries on roughly 50 writers from...
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Though many outstanding novels have been written in the last century, most of these novelists have also been short story writers. This reference is a guide to contemporary English-language short story writers and their works. Included are alphabetically arranged entries on roughly 50 writers from around the world, most of whom have been active since 1960. More than half the American writers belong to historically marginalized groups, such as Jewish-Americans, African-Americans, and Asian-Americans, and the volume includes entries for slightly more women than men. Each entry is written by an expert contributor and provides biographical material, a review of criticism, an extended analysis of specific works, and a selected bibliography.
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Encyclopedia of African Literature (Discussion of Ama Ata Aidoo begins on p. 14) » Read Now
by Simon Gikandi. 629 pgs.

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The most comprehensive reference work on African literature to date, this book covers all the key historical and cultural issues in the field. The Encyclopedia contains over 600 entries covering criticism and theory, African literature's development as a field of scholarship, and studies of...
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The most comprehensive reference work on African literature to date, this book covers all the key historical and cultural issues in the field. The Encyclopedia contains over 600 entries covering criticism and theory, African literature's development as a field of scholarship, and studies of established and lesser-known writers and their texts. While the greatest proportion of literary work in Africa has been a product of the twentieth century, the Encyclopedia also covers the literature back to the earliest eras of story-telling and oral transmission, making this a unique and valuable resource for those studying social sciences as well as humanities. This work includes cross-references, suggestions for further reading, and a comprehensive index.
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