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Daughters of Anowa

Author : Mercy Amba Oduyoye
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Daughters of Anowa written by Mercy Amba Oduyoye and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Daughters of Anowa provides an analysis of the lives of African women today from an African woman's own perspective. It is a study of the influence of culture and religion - particularly of traditional African cultures and Christianity - on African women's lives. Mercy Amba Oduyoye illustrates how myths, proverbs, and folk tales (called "folktalk") operate in the socialization of young women, working to preserve the norms of the community. Daughters of Anowa reveals how global patriarchy manifests itself in these social structures, in both patrilineal and matrilineal communities. Organized as a narrative in three cycles, Daughters of Anowa demonstrates how folktalk alienates women from power, discourages individuality and encourages conformity. It also considers the possibilities for the future. Oduyoye posits that change will come about only when the daughters of Anowa (the mythic representative of Africa itself) confront the realities of culture and religion in perpetuating patriarchal oppression and work to realize the goal of a new woman in a new Africa.

A Study Guide for Ama Ata Aidoo's "Anowa"

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Author : Gale, Cengage Learning
Publisher : Gale, Cengage Learning
ISBN 13 : 1410340082
Total Pages : 16 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book A Study Guide for Ama Ata Aidoo's "Anowa" written by Gale, Cengage Learning and published by Gale, Cengage Learning . This book was released on 2016 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Postcolonial Plays

Author : Helen Gilbert
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136218173
Total Pages : 484 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (362 download)

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Download or read book Postcolonial Plays written by Helen Gilbert and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-13 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of contemporary postcolonial plays demonstrates the extraordinary vitality of a body of work that is currently influencing the shape of contemporary world theatre. This anthology encompasses both internationally admired 'classics' and previously unpublished texts, all dealing with imperialism and its aftermath. It includes work from Canada, the Carribean, South and West Africa, Southeast Asia, India, New Zealand and Australia. A general introduction outlines major themes in postcolonial plays. Introductions to individual plays include information on authors as well as overviews of cultural contexts, major ideas and performance history. Dramaturgical techniques in the plays draw on Western theatre as well as local performance traditions and include agit-prop dialogue, musical routines, storytelling, ritual incantation, epic narration, dance, multimedia presentation and puppetry. The plays dramatize diverse issues, such as: *globalization * political corruption * race and class relations *slavery *gender and sexuality *media representation *nationalism

Africa After Gender?

Author : Catherine M. Cole
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253218772
Total Pages : 690 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (532 download)

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Download or read book Africa After Gender? written by Catherine M. Cole and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2007-02-07 with total page 690 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gender is one of the most productive, dynamic, and vibrant areas of Africanist research today. This volume looks at Africa now that gender has come into play to consider how the continent, its people, and the term itself have changed.

Dilemma of a Ghost

Author : Ama Ata Aidoo
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781903552162
Total Pages : 126 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (521 download)

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Download or read book Dilemma of a Ghost written by Ama Ata Aidoo and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Global Christianity

Author : Frans Jozef Servaas Wijsen
Publisher : Rodopi
ISBN 13 : 9042021926
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book Global Christianity written by Frans Jozef Servaas Wijsen and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2007 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2002 Philip Jenkins wrote The Next Christendom. Over the past half century the centre of gravity of the Christian world has moved decisively to the global South, says Jenkins. Within a few decades European and Euro-American Christians will have become a small fragment of world Christianity. By that time Christianity in Europe and North America will to a large extent consist of Southern-derived immigrant communities. Southern churches will fulfil neither the Liberation Dream nor the Conservative Dream of the North, but will seek their own solutions to their particular problems. Jenkins' book evoked strong reactions, a bit to his own surprise, as the book contained little new. In the United States of America, the prospect of a more biblical Christianity caused reactions of alarm in liberal circles. In contrast, conservatives were delighted by the same prospect. In Europe the book landed in the middle of the debate on Europe as an exceptional case. It was detested by those who stick to the theory of ongoing and irreversible secularisation and welcomed by those who see a resurgence of religion, also in Europe. In the present volume, scholars of religion and theologians assess the global trends in World Christianity as described in Philip Jenkins' book. It is the outcome of an international conference on Southern Christianity and its relation to Christianity in the North, held in the Conference Centre of Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands.

Anowa

Author : Ama Ata Aidoo
Publisher : Longman
ISBN 13 : 9780582818958
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (189 download)

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Download or read book Anowa written by Ama Ata Aidoo and published by Longman. This book was released on 2003-01 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edition of Ama Ata Aidoo's well-known play has been specially developed for JSS pupils to use in preparation for BECE.

Modern Anglophone Drama by Women

Author : Alan P. Barr
Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9780820488882
Total Pages : 508 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (888 download)

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Download or read book Modern Anglophone Drama by Women written by Alan P. Barr and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2007 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alan P. Barr has brought together eleven world-class modern plays by women that show not only their artistry but also their variety and their passion. Drawn from nine different countries (other than the United States and England) that use English as their literary language, the plays reflect the concerns of women across the globe. The imagery and dramatic conventions may shift and the tones vary, but the need to be strong (and its difficulty), the sense of a world that is anything but nurturing or ideal, and the suspect nature of family life and relations are constant themes. The struggle over language, in countries that are very often ex-colonies, conveys the frequent overlap between feminist and postcolonial focuses. The diversity of Englishes on stages from Singapore to South Africa is a lovely curtain call to this theater festival.

Nwanyibu

Author : Phanuel Akubueze Egejuru
Publisher : Africa World Press
ISBN 13 : 9780865436183
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (361 download)

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Download or read book Nwanyibu written by Phanuel Akubueze Egejuru and published by Africa World Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Anowa

Author : Ama Ata Aidoo
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 86 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Anowa written by Ama Ata Aidoo and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Our Mothers, Our Powers, Our Texts

Author : Teresa N. Washington
Publisher : Oya's Tornado
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Our Mothers, Our Powers, Our Texts written by Teresa N. Washington and published by Oya's Tornado. This book was released on 2015-12-23 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Blazes a new trail in Africana literary criticism by providing an insight into the soul and spirit of Africana womanhood.” --Anthonia Kalu, The Ohio State University, author of Women, Literature, and Development in Africa This is the revised and expanded edition of Teresa N. Washington's groundbreaking book Our Mothers, Our Powers, Our Texts: Manifestations of Aje in Africana Literature. In Yoruba language and culture, Aje signifies both a phenomenal spiritual power and the human beings who exercise that power. Aje is the birthright of Africana women who are revered as the Gods of Society. While Africana men can have Aje, its owners and controllers are Africana women. Because it is an African female power, and due to its invisibility, ubiquity, and profundity, Aje is often maligned as witchcraft. However, as Teresa N. Washington reveals in Our Mothers, Our Powers, Our Texts, Aje is central to the Yoruba ethos, worldview, and cosmology. Not only is it essential to human creation and artistic creativity, but as a force of justice and retribution, Aje is vital to social harmony and balance. Washington analyzes forms, figures, and forces of Aje in the Yoruba world, in the Caribbean Islands, in Latin America, and in African America. Washington's research reveals that with the exile and enslavement of millions of Africans, Aje became a global force and an essential ally in organizing insurrections, soothing shattered souls, and reminding the dispossessed of their inherent divinity. From her in-depth exploration of Aje in Pan-African history and orature, Washington guides readers through rich analyses of the symbolic, methodological, and spiritual manifestations of Aje that are central to important works by Africana writers but are rarely elucidated by Western criticism. Our Mothers, Our Powers, Our Texts includes innovative readings of works by many Africana writers, including Zora Neale Hurston, Toni Morrison, Ben Okri, Wole Soyinka, Jamaica Kincaid, and Ntozake Shange. This revised and expanded edition of Our Mothers, Our Powers, Our Texts will appeal to scholars of Africana literature, African religion and philosophy, gender studies, and comparative literature. Devotees of Africana spiritual systems will find this book to be indispensable.

Middle Passages and the Healing Place of History

Author : Elizabeth Brown-Guillory
Publisher : Ohio State University Press
ISBN 13 : 0814210384
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (142 download)

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Download or read book Middle Passages and the Healing Place of History written by Elizabeth Brown-Guillory and published by Ohio State University Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Middle Passages and the Healing Place of History: Migration and Identity in Black Women's Literature brings together a series of essays addressing black women's fragmented identities and quests for wholeness. The individual essays concern culturally specific experiences of blacks in select African countries, England, the Caribbean, the United States, and Canada. They examine identity struggles by establishing the Middle Passage as the first site of identity rupture and the subsequent break from cultural and historical moorings. In most cases, the authors themselves have migrated from their places of origin to new spaces that present challenges. Their narratives replicate the displacement engendered by their own experiences of living with the complexities of diasporic existence. Their female characters, many of whom participate in multiple border crossings, work to define themselves within a hostile environment. In nearly every essay, the female characters struggle against multiple yokes of oppression, giving voice to what it means to be black, female, poor, old, and alone. The subjects' migrations and journeys are analyzed as attempts to heal the "displacement," both physical and psychological, that results from dislocation and relocation from the homeland, imagined variously as Africa. This volume reveals that black women across the globe share a common ground fraught with struggles, but the narratives bear out that these women are not easily divided and that they stand upon each other's shoulders dispensing healing balms. Black women's history and herstory commingle; the trauma that ensued when Africans were loaded onto ships in chains continues to haunt black women, and men, too, wherever they find themselves in this present moment of the Diaspora.

Migrating Words and Worlds

Author : E. Anthony Hurley
Publisher : Africa World Press
ISBN 13 : 9780865437012
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (37 download)

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Download or read book Migrating Words and Worlds written by E. Anthony Hurley and published by Africa World Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays presented here, demonstrating concepts of Pan-Africanism, which, historically, were concerned with colonialism, racial identity, and African unity, extend the discussion of an Africa' that exists beyond the continent and includes the Caribbean, the Americas and Europe.'

The Difference Place Makes

Author : Angeletta K. M. Gourdine
Publisher : Ohio State University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780814209264
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (92 download)

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Download or read book The Difference Place Makes written by Angeletta K. M. Gourdine and published by Ohio State University Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Dilemma of a Ghost ; Anowa

Author : Ama Ata Aidoo
Publisher : Prentice Hall
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Dilemma of a Ghost ; Anowa written by Ama Ata Aidoo and published by Prentice Hall. This book was released on 1987 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dilemma of a Ghost When Ato returns to Ghana from his studies in North America he brings with him a sophisticated black American wife. But their hopes of a happy marriage and of combining 'the sweetness and loveliest things in Africa and America' are soon shown to have been built on an unstable foundation.

Global Theatre Anthologies: Ancient, Indigenous and Modern Plays from Africa and the Diaspora

Author : H.W. Fairman
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350360708
Total Pages : 425 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book Global Theatre Anthologies: Ancient, Indigenous and Modern Plays from Africa and the Diaspora written by H.W. Fairman and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2023-11-02 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The power of theatrical performance is universal, but the style and concerns of theatre are specific to individual cultures. This volume in the Global Theatre Perspectives series presents a reconstructed ancient performance text, four one-act indigenous African plays and five modern dramas from various regions of Africa and the Caribbean Diaspora. Because these plays span centuries and are the work of artists from diverse cultures, readers can see elements that occur across time and space. Physicalized ritual, direct interaction with spectators, improvisation, music, drumming, and metaphorical animal characters help create the theatrical forms in multiple plays. Recurring themes include the establishment or challenging of political authority, the oppression or corruption of government, societal expectations based on gender, the complex and transformational nature of identity, and the power of dreams. Though each play is its own unique entity, reading them together allows readers to explore what theatrical elements and cultural concerns are perhaps essentially African. The Caribbean plays add further perspective to the questions of what values, theatrical and societal, are part of African drama, how these have influenced the Caribbean aesthetic, and what the relationships are between the old and new world. Among the creators of the pieces are two Nobel Laureates, those who have been exiled or jailed for the political nature of their work, and the author of his country's first constitution. The volume can serve as the primary text for an intensive semester-long investigation of African drama and culture. But it is also possible to use this volume along with others in the series as texts for a single course on drama from around the world. The global perspectives approach, letting works from ancient, indigenous, and modern times resonate with each other, encourages thinking across boundaries and connective human understanding.

Nkyin-kyin

Author : James Gibbs
Publisher : Rodopi
ISBN 13 : 9042025174
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book Nkyin-kyin written by James Gibbs and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2009 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection brings together essays written over a thirty-five year period. They reflect James Gibbs's position vis-à-vis the Ghanaian theatre as sometimes a remote onlooker, sometimes an enthusiastic participant observer, deeply involved in issues of perception and influence in a society moving through colonialism to nationalism, independence and beyond. The main body of the book is divided into four sections. The first, “Outsiders and Activists,” looks at theatre for community development during the late 1940s, some connections between drama and film, and the astonishing involvement in Ghanaian performance culture of the Haitian poet and playwright Felix Morisseau–Leroy. The second section, “Intercultural Encounters,” examines ways in which classic Greek drama has been used by producers and writers in West Africa, with special reference to Victor Yankah, Kobina Sekyi (Ghana's first published playwright), and the Nigerian Femi Osofisan. Section Three, “Plays and Playwrights,” concentrates on Efua Sutherland, Ama Ata Aidoo, and Joe de Graft. This section uncovers issues of documentation and achievement that draw attention to the need for investment in organising resources for writing Ghana's theatre history. The volume draws to a close with personal accounts of touring student productions in the 1960s (with due attention to the influence of Bertolt Brecht) and of involvement in a British film production on location. The book closes with an updated complete bibliography of Ghana's chief dramatist, Efua Sutherland.