The author is a well known Ghanaian novelist, theatre writer and screenwriter. Kodzo's dramatic birth in a canoe in the middle of the Volta river, endows him with unique powers and a personal charm for which he is liked by some and violently resented by others. He is generally considered immune to all forms of danger. But he finds himself in jeopardy when he has an affair with the daughter of Tobge, a powerful chief, and also the daughter of Dr. Hoffman, a German scientist.

In the first comprehensive, theoretically informed work in English on Quebec cinema, Marshall views his subject as neither the assertion of some unproblematic national wholeness nor a random collection of disparate voices that drown out or invalidate the question of nation. Instead, he shows that while the allegory of nation marks Quebec film production it also leads to a tension between textual and contextual forces, between homogeneity and heterogeneity, and between major and minor modes of being and identity. Drawing on a broad framework of theory and particularly indebted to the work of...

In the first comprehensive, theoretically informed work in English on Quebec cinema, Marshall views his subject as neither the assertion of some unproblematic national wholeness nor a random collection of disparate voices that drown out or invalidate the question of nation. Instead, he shows that while the allegory of nation marks Quebec film production it also leads to a tension between textual and contextual forces, between homogeneity and heterogeneity, and between major and minor modes of being and identity. Drawing on a broad framework of theory and particularly indebted to the work of...