Aidoo, Ama Ata

Aidoo, Ama Ata

▪ Ghanaian writer
in full  Christina Ama Ata Aidoo  
born March 23, 1942, Abeadzi Kyiakor, near Saltpond, Gold Coast [now Ghana]

      Ghanaian writer whose work, written in English, emphasized the paradoxical position of the modern African woman.

      Aidoo began to write seriously while an honours student at the University of Ghana (B.A., 1964). She won early recognition with a problem play, The Dilemma of a Ghost (1965), in which a Ghanaian student returning home brings his African-American wife into the traditional culture and the extended family that he now finds restrictive. Their dilemma reflects Aidoo's characteristic concern with the “been-to” (African educated abroad), voiced again in her semiautobiographical experimental first novel, Our Sister Killjoy; or, Reflections from a Black-Eyed Squint (1966). Aidoo herself won a fellowship to Stanford University in California, returned to teach at Cape Coast, Ghana, and subsequently accepted various visiting professorships in the United States and Kenya.

      In No Sweetness Here (1970), a collection of short stories, Aidoo exercised the oral element of storytelling, writing tales that are meant to be read aloud. These stories and Anowa (1970), another problem play, are concerned with Western influences on the role of women and on the individual in a communal society. Aidoo rejected the argument that Western education emancipates African women. She further exposed exploitation of women who, as unacknowledged heads of households when war or unemployment leaves them husbandless, must support their children alone. Aidoo published little between 1970 and 1985, when Someone Talking to Sometime, a collection of poetry, appeared. Later titles include The Eagle and the Chickens (1986; a collection of children's stories), Birds and Other Poems (1987), and the novel Changes: A Love Story (1991).

* * *


Universalium. 2010.

Игры ⚽ Поможем написать реферат

Look at other dictionaries:

  • Ama Ata Aidoo — (nom de baptême Christina Ama Aidoo) (né le 23 mars 1942) à Abeadzi Kyiakor est une écrivaine et dramaturge ghanéenne, professeur d émancipation de la femme et ministre de l Éducation du Ghana. Elle grandit dans une famille royale du peuple Fanti …   Wikipédia en Français

  • Ama Ata Aidoo — (born March 23, 1942) is a Ghanaian author and playwright who was born Christina Ama Aidoo in Abeadzi Kyiakor. She grew up in a Fante royal household and was sent by her father to the Wesley Girls High School in Cape Coast from 1961 to 1964.… …   Wikipedia

  • Ama Ata Aidoo — Saltar a navegación, búsqueda Ama Ata Aidoo, nacida como Christina Ama Aidoo (Abeadzi Kyiakor; 23 de marzo de 1942), es una escritora de Ghana. Biografía Christina Ama Aidoo creció en la casa real de Fanti y su padre la envió a estudiar a la… …   Wikipedia Español

  • Ama Ata Aidoo — (* 1942 in Ghana) ist eine Schriftstellerin und Politikerin aus Ghana. Sie genießt weltweite Anerkennung, ihre Bücher wurden in viele Sprachen übersetzt. Auf Deutsch ist bisher Die Zweitfrau erschienen. Aidoo lebte lange Zeit nach Ihrer Zeit als… …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • Aidoo — ist der Familienname folgender Personen: Abraham Osei Aidoo (* ?); ghanaischer Politiker Ama Ata Aidoo (* 1942), simbabwische Schriftstellerin Joseph Boahen Aidoo (* ?), ghanaischer Politiker Kofi Aidoo, (*1950er), ghanaischer Autor… …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • Changes: a Love Story —   Author(s) Ama Ata Aidoo Country …   Wikipedia

  • Liste der Biografien/Ai — Biografien: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • Afrikanisch — Satellitenfoto Afrikas Der Kontinent Afrika hat eine Fläche von 30,3 Millionen km² (22 % der gesamten Landfläche der Erde) und wird von etwa 924 Mio. Menschen (14 % der gegenwärtigen Weltbevölkerung, Stand Mitte 2006) bewohnt. In Afrika leben… …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • Republik Ghana — Republic of Ghana Republik Ghana Flagge Wappen …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • Schwarzer Kontinent — Satellitenfoto Afrikas Der Kontinent Afrika hat eine Fläche von 30,3 Millionen km² (22 % der gesamten Landfläche der Erde) und wird von etwa 924 Mio. Menschen (14 % der gegenwärtigen Weltbevölkerung, Stand Mitte 2006) bewohnt. In Afrika leben… …   Deutsch Wikipedia

Share the article and excerpts

Direct link
Do a right-click on the link above
and select “Copy Link”