Critical perspectives on Ayi Kwei Armah
Starting with the premise that aesthetic choices reveal the ideological stances of translators, the author of this research monograph examines works of fiction by postcolonial African authors writing in English or French, the genesis and reception of their works, and the transla…
Regenerative Pan-Africanism describes the contemporary liberation ideology that members of the African world should unite, using our collective talents and skills to reclaim Africa for Africans. Since West African independence, Pan-Africanism has quietly emerged as a functional …
This study explores the ways in which selected fictional narratives by Ayi Kwei Armah, Nuruddin Farah, Bessie Head and Wole Soyinka figure the African world in its postcolonial condition. By "figuration" I mean, after Hayden White, the manner in which a determinate narrative--hi…
Négritude is a condensed form of Western ideologies; yet it is still the basis for any claim of Black/African specificity. However, that specificity is not unique to Black/Africans, but is, rather, part of a wider universal system. At the same time, because racism is one of the …