Ama Ata Aidoo | Criticism

This literature criticism consists of approximately 26 pages of analysis & critique of Ama Ata Aidoo.
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Ama Ata Aidoo | Criticism

This literature criticism consists of approximately 26 pages of analysis & critique of Ama Ata Aidoo.
This section contains 6,838 words
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SOURCE: Karavanta, Assimina. “Rethinking the Specter: Ama Ata Aidoo's Anowa.Mosaic 34, no. 4 (December 2001): 107-22.

In the following essay, Karavanta discusses Anowa from a global perspective, commenting that the play's most significant attribute is “the multiple voices that it engages in addressing the problematic of colonialism and the beginning of the flow of white capital in the region of the Gold Coast.”

Il faut parler du fantôme, voire au fantôme et avec lui, des lors qu'aucune éthique, aucune politique, revolutionnaire ou non, ne paraît possible et pensable et juste, qui ne reconnaisse à son principe le respect sur ces autres qui ne sont plus ou pur ces autres qui ne sont pas encore là, présentement vivants, qu'ils soient déjà morts ou qu'ils ne soient pas encore nés.

Jacques Derrida, Spectres de Marx

The contemporary momentum is informed by the celebrated prophecy of a “global...

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