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| Title: | Emerging Perspectives on Ama Ata Aidoo |
| Editors: | Azodo, Ada Uzoamaka Wilentz, Gay |
| Chapter(s): | Present |
| Year: | 1999 |
| Pages: | 500 |
| Language: | English |
| City of publisher: | Trenton, NJ |
| Publisher: | Africa World Press |
| ISBN: | 0865435804; 0865435812 |
| Geographic term: | Ghana |
| Subject: | literature |
| About person: | Christina Ama Ata Aidoo (1942-) |
| Abstract: | This volume contains essays on the life and work of Ama Ata Aidoo (1942- ), Ghana's foremost woman writer. Part 1 focuses on Aidoo's creative and critical writing. Besides an article by Gay Wilentz on Aidoo as a critical writer, it contains an article written in 1981 by Aidoo herself on women as writers and characters in contemporary African literature. Part 2 details Aidoo's views on the relationship between Africa and its diaspora, paying attention to such issues as slavery, exile and transnationality (Angeletta K.M. Gourdine, Mildred A. Hill-Lubin, Maureen N. Eke, Gay Wilentz and Haiping Yan). Part 3 probes the nature of Aidoo's œuvre and her commitment to create texts in English, which mirror her own development of an artistic awareness and consciousness about the nature of storytelling and portrayal of life's drama through characters (Naana Jane Opoku-Agyemang, Linda Strong-Leek, Arlene A. Elder, Kenneth W. Harrow, Paula Morgan, Ada Uzoamaka Azodo, and Vincent Okpoti Odamtten). Part 4 treats the feminist side of Aidoo's writings (Peter Wilfred Stine, Gay Wilentz, Juliana Makuchi Nfah-Abbenyi, Naana Banyiwa Horne, Sally McWilliams, Pauline Onwubiko Uwakweh, Miriam C. Gyimah, and Ada Uzoamaka Azodo). Part 5 contains an interview conducted with Aidoo by Ada Uzoamaka Azodo. A selected bibliography of and on Ama Ata Aidoo completes the volume. |
