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Title:

Broadening the horizon : critical introductions to Amma Darko / edited by Vincent O. Odamtten.

Publisher:

Distributed in the U.S. by Lynne Rienner,
Distributed in the U.S. by Lynne Rienner,

Copyright Date:

2007

Description:

x, 150 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Darko, Amma,--1956---Criticism and interpretation.

Other Authors:

Odamtten, Vincent O.
Arts Council England.

Notes:

"Arts Council England." Includes bibliographical references.

Contents:

Breaking the shell : our customs, our traditions and the pan-African dream, or, rethinking pan-Africanism : keynote address / Amma Darko. Victims and/or victimisers? Women's de(con)structive power in The housemaid / Monica Bungaro -- Licit desires, alien bodies and the economics of invisibility in Amma Darko's Beyond the horizon and Stephen Frears' Dirty pretty things / Sean P. O'Connell and Vincent O. Odamtten -- Ngambika and grassroots fiction : Amma Darko's The housemaid and Faceless / Mary Ellen (Ellie) Higgins -- Amma Darko's The housemaid and the gendering of novel and nation / Carmela Garritano -- Exploitation, negligence and violence : gendered interrelationships in Amma Darko's novels / Angsotinge, Dako, Denkabe & Yitah -- Amma Darko's Beyond the horizon : vending the dream and other traumas for the obedient daughter / Vincent O. Odamtten -- Sage, muse, crone : the grandmother in Amma Darko's novels / Naana Banyiwa Horne -- Breaking the shell : our customs, our traditions and the pan-African dream, or, rethinking pan-Africanism : keynote address / Amma Darko.

ISBN:

9780954702380 (pbk.)
0954702387 (pbk.)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)67375557

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)