Saturday, December 8, 2012

AMA ATA AIDOO


From a young age, the great Ghanaian female writer, Ama Ata Aidoo was something of a prodigy as a creative writer. As a student she wrote and staged her first play, The dilemma of a ghost. Her novel, Our Sister Killjoy was praised to high heavens by many international critics.
Aidoo went on to lecture as an academic around the world, and over the decades has published quite a number of books, including Anowa, No Sweetness Here: A Collection of Short Stories, Birds and Other Poems, The Girl Who Can and Other Stories,  Our Sister Killjoy, Changes: a Love Story, An Angry Letter in January (poems),  The Eagle and the Chicken,  Birds and Other Poems, and Changes ( 1991)

Studies:

The art of Ama Ata Aidoo : polylectics and reading against neocolonialism by Vincent O Odamtten 

Emerging perspectives on Ama Ata Aidoo 

The developing art of Ama Ata Aidoo by Vincent Okpoti Odamtten 

The creative/theoretical in the works of Ama Ata Aidoo by Miriam Comfort Gyimah 

Ama Ata Aidoo's Heart of darkness by Hildegard Hoeller 

Ama Ata Aidoo's orphan ghosts : African literature and aesthetic postmodernity by Thérèse Migraine-George 

About Lovers in Accra : urban intimacy in Ama Ata Aidoo's Changes : a love story by Maria Olaussen 


Folklore, orature, and popular writing : counter-discursive strategies in the work of Ama Ata Aidoo by Judy Lynne Barton 





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