Ghanaian literatures
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Ghanaian literatures
（Contributions in Afro-American and African studies, no. 120）
Greenwood Press, 1988
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Bibliography: p. 281-291
Includes index
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Description
Ghananian Literature is a scholarly and very valuable collection surveying the Ghanian literatures and their critical reception until the present decade. World Literature Today
Ghana, one of the smaller countries in Africa, is a linguistically and culturally pluralistic society that has had a disproportionately large impact on the rest of Africa. Although English is the official language, works are also published in vernacular languages. This comprehensive introduction to the literature of Ghana is organized by type of literature--oral art, popular literature, and elite, primarily English-language literature. Some essays appear for the first time; all reflect the wide range of Ghana's creative writing.
Table of Contents
Introduction by Richard K. Priebe Oral Art The Language of the Proverb by Lawrence A. Boadi Storytelling of the Akan and Guan in Ghana by Jonas Yeboa-Dankwa The Making and Breaking of Kwame Nkrumah: The Role of Oral Poetry by Kwesi Yankah Popular Literature Comic Opera in Ghana by E. J. Collins The Character of Popular Fiction in Ghana by Ime Ikiddeh Poetry Kofi Awoonor and the Ewe Tradition of Songs of Abuse (Halo) by Kofi Anyidoho Kofi Awoonor's Poetry by L. R. Early Kwesi Brew: The Poetry of Statement and Situation by Edwin Thumboo Atukewi Okai and His Poetic Territory by Kofi Anyidoho Three Young Ghanaian Poets: Vincent Okpoti Odamtten, Kofi Anyidoho, and Eugene Opoku Agyemang by Kofi Awoonor Drama Drama in Ghana by Charles Angmor Language and Drama: Ama Ata Aidoo by Dapo Adelugba Fiction Ama Ata Aidoo: The Art of the Short Story by Lloyd W. Brown Three Ghanaian Novels: The Catechist, The Narrow Path, and A Woman in Her Prime by Robert McDowell Structure and Image in Kwei Armah's The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born by Gareth Griffiths Ayi Kwei Armah and the "I" of the Beholder by D. S. Izevbaye Armah's Fragments and the Vision of the Whole by Edward Lobb Kofi Awoonor's This Earth, My Brother as an African Dirge by Richard K. Priebe
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