Ghana
Our Sister Killjoy
Publisher: Addison Wesley Longman
Published: 1988
Type: BOOK
In this novel, the author explores the thoughts and experiences of a Ghanaian girl on her travels through Europe.
Fiction
Our Sister Killjoy
Publisher: Longman Publishing Group
Published: 1994
Type: BOOK
Aidoo's first novel explores the thoughts and experiences of a Ghanaian girl on her travels in Europe
African diaspora in literature
Middle Passages and the Healing Place of History
Publisher: Ohio State University Press
Published: 2006
Type: BOOK
... the “ticky-tackies we have / saddled and surrounded ourselves with, / blocked our views, / cluttered our brains” (Our Sister Killjoy 5). Upon receiving a scholarship from the government to study abroad, Sis- sie, one of the young people ...
Social Science
Gender and Germanness
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 1998-02-01
Type: BOOK
... Our Sister Killjoy reflect critically on such simplistic binarisms of German national self-representation.4 In ... Our Sister Killjoy. 2. For an overview of German national identity in relationship to the political and economic changes in ...
African American women
Postcolonial Perspectives on Women Writers from Africa, the Caribbean, and the US
Publisher: Africa World Press
Published: 2003
Type: BOOK
... Our Sister Killjoy " ) . Drawing on Terry Eagleton and George Lamming , she presents a thoughtful reading of Our Sister Killjoy as an example of a " politics of exile . " While I have drawn on her work several times throughout my ...
History
The Swarming Streets
Publisher: Rodopi
Published: 2004
Type: BOOK
... the individual , the larger community from which he or she migrates inevitably suffers one way or the other . It is this state of affairs that regulates the lives of the Ghanaian and African migrants of Aidoo's Our Sister Killjoy . As with ...
Political Science
Interventions
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2019-08-15
Type: BOOK
... Our Sister Killjoy ( 1977 ) and Changes ( 1991 ) , show her continuing engagement in the question of how best to ... Our Sister Killjoy and the Uses of Tradition Our Sister Killjoy , first published in 1966 , is a complex narrative that ...
Literary Criticism
The Columbia Guide to West African Literature in English Since 1945
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2008-10-21
Type: BOOK
Oyekan Owomoyela. Dream , " " The Plums , " " From Our Sister Kill- joy , " and " A Love Letter , " it serves as a vehicle ... Sister Killjoy . ' In Black Women's Writing , ed . Gina Wisker , 146-59 . New York : St. Martin's , 1993 . and ...
History
Black Women, Identity, and Cultural Theory
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: 2004
Type: BOOK
... The process is one of heartbreak and risk as well as of uncompromised love . Aidoo offers an exquisite narration of the struggle to be enough in Our Sister Killjoy . The novel's title chapter characterizes the absence and failure of ...
Fiction
Changes
Publisher: Feminist Press at CUNY
Published: 1993
Type: BOOK
A Love Story Ama Ata Aidoo. For Aidoo , the marriage plot , with its penchant for constraint and conformity , seems ... Our Sister Killjoy . The simmering problem of intellectual dislocation dramatized in The Dilemma of a Ghost comes to ...
