Ayi Kwei Armah, Radical Iconoclast: Pitting the Imaginary Worlds Against the Actual

ISBN-13: 9780821413524 / Angielski / Twarda / 2000 / 221 str.

Ode Ogede

Opis

Ghanaian novelist, essayist, and short-story writer Ayi Kwei Armah has won international recognition as one of Africa s most articulate writers. In this book, Ode Ogede argues that previous critics have misinterpreted the aesthetic and literary influences that have shaped Armah s artistic vision and overlooked his most significant and valuable contribution to the problems of writing outside the prison-house of conventional English.
Professor Ogede situates Armah s writing within its cultural, historical, and political contexts and examines Armah s ability to create new literary forms based on his masterful manipulation of African oral traditions. Armah is presented here as a writer who looks beyond the corruption that would seem to have engulfed Africa and who successfully bridges the concerns of first- and second-generation postcolonial African writers."