After the Ceremonies - New and Selected Poems

Informationen zum Autor Ama Ata Aidoo was born in Abeadzi Kyiakor, in south central Ghana in 1942. She studied literature at the University of Ghana, won a fellowship to Stanford University, and subsequently accepted visiting professorships in the United States and Africa. Her poetry collections include Birds and Other Poems, Someone Talking to Sometime, and An Angry Letter in January and Other Poems. Helen Yitah is an associate professor of English at the University of Ghana. She is the founding director of the University of Ghana–Carnegie Writing Centre and author of Throwing Stones in Jest: Kasena Women's Proverbial Revolt. Klappentext Ama Ata Aidoo was born¿in Abeadzi Kyiakor, in south central Ghana in 1942.¿She studied literature at the University of Ghana, won a fellowship to Stanford University, and subsequently accepted visiting professorships in the United States and Africa.¿Her poetry collections include¿Birds and Other Poems, Someone Talking to Sometime, and An Angry Letter in January and Other Poems. Helen Yitah¿is an associate professor of English¿at the University of Ghana. She is the founding director of the University of Ghana–Carnegie Writing Centre and¿author of Throwing Stones in Jest: Kasena Women's Proverbial Revolt. Zusammenfassung Ama Ata Aidoo is one of the best-known African writers today. Spanning three decades of work! the poems in this collection address themes of colonialism! independence! motherhood! and gender in intimate! personal ways alongside commentary on broader social issues. Inhaltsverzeichnis Foreword by Helen Yitah     Part One: New and Uncollected Poems Prelude For My Mother in Her Mid-90s     I. Fires and Ashes Me Pilgrim     Heathrow Healing     As the Dust Begins to Settle II: An Afterword, Twenty Years On     To a Silk Shirt in the Sun     After the Ceremonies     II. Grieving for the Living An Interrogation of an Academic Kind: An Essay     For Bessie Head     A Taking Care of Our Bourgeois Palates II—     Our Very Dear Juliana     Juliana (The Translation)     More Bad News: In Memoriam Fred E. K. Gbedemah     Awoonor? Ebei Oo!      Awoonor, Hmmm . . . (The Translation)     These Days (III): A Letter to Flora Nwapa     Ode to Qunu     III. The National Corruption Index and Other Poems The National Corruption Index     I. Really Funny Numbers     II. Just This Morning     III. More Really Funny Numbers     IV. About Single Trees     IV. All of It     On Reading Jackie Kay     Why on Earth Do I Continue to Listen to the BBC?!      Mourning Ricci     IV. Ghana: Where the Bead Speaks Ghana: Where the Bead Speaks     Part Two: Selections from An Angry Letter in January I: As Always, a Painful Declaration of Independence As Always, a Painful Declaration of Independence     II: Images of Africa at Century’s End Images of Africa at Century’s End     In Memoriam: The Ghana Drama Studio     A Question from the Expatriate Community     An Angry Letter in January     Speaking of Hurricanes     These Days: I     Three Poems for Chinua Achebe     1. A Modern African Story     2. Questions     3. New in Africa: I     Loving the Black Angel     No Grief No Joy     An Insider’s View     Homesickness     Two Letters     1. Family     2. After an Argument     III: Women’s Conferences and Other Poems Just One More Job for Mama     Whom Do We Thank for Women’s Conferences?      A Young Woman’s Voice Doesn’t Break. It Gets Firmer     Comparisons II: We Women, Still!      These Days: II     A Path in the Sky     A Birthday Gift     A Postcard from My Vacation     A Revelation     Part Three: Selections from Someone Talking to Sometime I: Of Love and Commitment Crisis     Of Love and Commitment     Greetings from London     Three Poems for Atta Britwum      1. Ghana Funerals     2. Nation Building     3. A Salute to African Universities     For Steve Hymer—A Propos 1966     Two for Kojo     1. As the Dust Begins to Settle—A Long Story II     2. Regrets    ...

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Ama Ata Aidoo
• Con la collaborazione di: Helen Yitah (Editore)
• Editore: University of Nebraska Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 01.03.2017
• EAN: 9780803296947
• ISBN: 978-0-8032-9694-7
• Pagine: 277
• Categoria: Narrativa > Poesia lirica, drammatica