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Author : Gale, Cengage Learning
Release : 2016
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Rating : 082/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis A Study Guide for Ama Ata Aidoo's "Anowa" by : Gale, Cengage Learning
Download or read book A Study Guide for Ama Ata Aidoo's "Anowa" written by Gale, Cengage Learning. This book was released on 2016. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mercy Amba Oduyoye
Release : 1995
Genre : Religion
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Book Synopsis Daughters of Anowa by : Mercy Amba Oduyoye
Download or read book Daughters of Anowa written by Mercy Amba Oduyoye. This book was released on 1995. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Daughters of Anowa provides an analysis of the lives of African women today from an African woman's own perspective. It is a study of the influence of culture and religion - particularly of traditional African cultures and Christianity - on African women's lives. Mercy Amba Oduyoye illustrates how myths, proverbs, and folk tales (called "folktalk") operate in the socialization of young women, working to preserve the norms of the community. Daughters of Anowa reveals how global patriarchy manifests itself in these social structures, in both patrilineal and matrilineal communities. Organized as a narrative in three cycles, Daughters of Anowa demonstrates how folktalk alienates women from power, discourages individuality and encourages conformity. It also considers the possibilities for the future. Oduyoye posits that change will come about only when the daughters of Anowa (the mythic representative of Africa itself) confront the realities of culture and religion in perpetuating patriarchal oppression and work to realize the goal of a new woman in a new Africa.
Author : Ama Ata Aidoo
Release : 2001
Genre : Large type books
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Book Rating : 162/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Dilemma of a Ghost by : Ama Ata Aidoo
Download or read book Dilemma of a Ghost written by Ama Ata Aidoo. This book was released on 2001. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Helen Gilbert
Release : 2013-09-13
Genre : Performing Arts
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Book Rating : 246/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Postcolonial Plays by : Helen Gilbert
Download or read book Postcolonial Plays written by Helen Gilbert. This book was released on 2013-09-13. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Elizabeth Brown-Guillory
Release : 2006
Genre : African diaspora in literature
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Book Rating : 384/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Middle Passages and the Healing Place of History by : Elizabeth Brown-Guillory
Download or read book Middle Passages and the Healing Place of History written by Elizabeth Brown-Guillory. This book was released on 2006. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Middle Passages and the Healing Place of History: Migration and Identity in Black Women's Literature brings together a series of essays addressing black women's fragmented identities and quests for wholeness. The individual essays concern culturally specific experiences of blacks in select African countries, England, the Caribbean, the United States, and Canada. They examine identity struggles by establishing the Middle Passage as the first site of identity rupture and the subsequent break from cultural and historical moorings. In most cases, the authors themselves have migrated from their places of origin to new spaces that present challenges. Their narratives replicate the displacement engendered by their own experiences of living with the complexities of diasporic existence. Their female characters, many of whom participate in multiple border crossings, work to define themselves within a hostile environment. In nearly every essay, the female characters struggle against multiple yokes of oppression, giving voice to what it means to be black, female, poor, old, and alone. The subjects' migrations and journeys are analyzed as attempts to heal the "displacement," both physical and psychological, that results from dislocation and relocation from the homeland, imagined variously as Africa. This volume reveals that black women across the globe share a common ground fraught with struggles, but the narratives bear out that these women are not easily divided and that they stand upon each other's shoulders dispensing healing balms. Black women's history and herstory commingle; the trauma that ensued when Africans were loaded onto ships in chains continues to haunt black women, and men, too, wherever they find themselves in this present moment of the Diaspora.
