AMA ATA AIDOO, HB (Writers and Their Work)

<p>This book examines the work of Ama Ata Aidoo from the perspectives of her early writing in Ghana of the 1960s, her development of the short story genre in Ghana and West Africa, her travel writings, and the various stylistic ways she uses poetry to communicate personal and public anxieties in a changing world.</p>

Ama Ata Aidoo (Writers and Their Work)

Biographies & Memoirs

Wilson-Tagoe, Nana

Arts & Literature

Liverpool University Press

This book examines the work of Ama Ata Aidoo from the perspectives of her early writing in Ghana of the 1960s, her development of the short story genre in Ghana and West Africa, her travel writings, and the various stylistic ways she uses poetry to communicate personal and public anxieties in a changing world.

Northcote House Publishers

"There is in this work nearly total grasp of the central concerns of . . . Anglophone Caribbean literature. Few books on the subject cover it with the breadth and depth that this has."--Isidore Okpewho, State university of New York, Binghamton"An impressive range of explorations into the ways in which the better-known male Caribbean writers of fiction, poetry, and drama reconceptualize Caribbean history."--Kathleen M. Balutansky, Saint Michael’s CollegeNana Wilson-Tagoe argues that it is in the imaginative recasting of the past, more than in one-dimensional explanations of historical processes, that we find insights in Caribbean history and that it is this recasting that has shaped Caribbean literature in the 20th century. Looking at major Anglophone Caribbean writers in three genres--novels, short stories, and poetry--she analyzes the ways in which history has been perceived, constructed, and used in West Indian literature. In that context she explores the interplay of reality and the fantastic; history and the imagination; myth and ancestral memory; time-bound conceptions of the West Indies and the timeless values of life there. While discussion focuses on the interface between literature and historiography, it also addresses issues in sociology, political science, and philosophy. Wilson-Tagoe’s work will appeal to students of Caribbean literature but also and particularly to scholars who study the black Atlantic world, both on its own terms and in its relations with Western society and Africa.Nana Wilson-Tagoe teaches African and Caribbean literature at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. She has published A Reader’s Guide to West Indian and Black British Literature as well as articles in Caribbean Review, Trinidad Review, Wasafiri, and Comparative and General Literature.

Historical Thought and Literary Representation in West Indian Literature

Literature & Fiction

History & Criticism

University Press of Florida

This text is an exploration of how history has been perceived, constructed and used in the fiction, poetry and drama of the Caribbean.  Nana Wilson-Tagoe shows how in turn the literature has broadened the definitions of history to include deeper currents and hidden influences. The book raises questions about gender and history and the ways in which women's experiences have mediated their portrayal of the past. The author also explores the complex role of Africa in the imagination of West Indian writers. North America: University Press of Florida; Caribbean: University of the West Indies Press

James Currey Ltd.

Historical Thought And Literary Representation In West Indian Literature

Univ of West Indies Pr

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