Ama Ata Aidoo: Bibliography

Megan Behrent, Brown University '97

Aidoo, Ama Ata. An Angry Letter in January , Sidney, Australia: Dangaroo Press, 1992

-- Anowa , London: Longman Drumbeat, 1985. (first published in 1970).

-- Changes: A Love Story , Accra, Ghana: Sub-Saharan Publishers Ltd., 1994 (firstpublished in 1991).

-- The Dilemna of a Ghost and Anowa , New York: Longman African Writers, 1995. (first published in 1965 and 1970 respectively).

-- No Sweetness Here New York: Longman African Writers, 1994 (first published in 1970).

-- Our Sister Killjoy or Reflections from a Black-eyed Squint , New York: Longman African Writers, 1994 (first published in 1977).

-- "The African Woman Today", Dissent , Summer, 1992, 319-325.

-- "To be a Woman", Sisterhood is Global : The International Women's Movement Anthology, , Robin Morgan (ed.); Garden City, New York: Anchor Press/ Doubleday, 1984, 258-265.

Ahmad, Aijaz. In Theory : Classes, Nations, Literatures , New York: Verso, 1992.

Angelou, Maya. All God's children need travelling shoes , New York: Random House, 1986.

Angmor, Charles. Contemporary Literature in Ghana 1911-1978 : A Critical Evaluation , Accra, Ghana: Woeli Publishing Services, 1996.

Armah, Ayi Kwei. The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born, , Portsmouth, New Hampshire: Heinneman, 1988. (first published in 1968).

-- Fragments, Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1970.

Ashcroft, Bill , Gareth Griffiths and Helen Tiffin (eds.). The Post-Colonial Studies Reader , London: Routledge, 1995.

Awoonor, Kofi. Until the Morning After : Selected Poems 1963-1985 , Greenfield Ctr, New York : Greenfield Review Press, 1987.

-- This Earth, My Brother... , London: Heinneman, 1982. (first published in 1971).

Anyidoho, Kofi. A Harvest of Our Dreams , Accra, Ghana: Woeli Publishing Services, 1993.(first published in 1985).

Brown, Lloyd W. Women Writers in Black Africa Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1981.

Bruner, Charlotte H. (ed.).Unwinding Threads : Writing by Women in Africa, Portsmouth, New Hampshire: Heinnemann Educational Publishers, 1994. (first published in 1983).

Busia, Abena P.A. Testimonies of Exile , Trenton, New Jersey: Africa World Press, 1990.

Chipasula, Stella and Frank (eds.). The Heinnemann Book of African Women's Poetry Portsmouth, New Hampshire: Heinnemann Educational Publishers, 1995

Clark, Gracia. Onions Are My Husband : Survival and Accumulation by West African Market Women , Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1994.

Darko, Amma. Beyond the Horizon , Portsmouth, New Hampshire: Heinneman, 1995.(first published as a German translation in 1991).

Dolphyne, Florence Abena. The Emancipation of Women: An African Perspective , Accra, Ghana: Ghana University Press, 1991

Emecheta, Buchi The Joys of Motherhood , New York: George Braziller Inc., 1979.

-- Second-Class Citizen, New York: George Braziller Inc., 1974.

Fage, J. D. and Roland Oliver (general eds.).The Cambridge History of Africa , Volume 5 from c.1790 to c. 1870 and Volume 6 from c.1870-c.1905 Volume 8 from c.1940 to c. 1975 , edited by Michael Crowder (ed.). New York: Cambridge University Press, 1984.

Fanon, Frantz. Black Skin White Masks, New York: Grove Press, 1967 (first published in French in 1952).

-- The Wretched of the Earth New York: Penguin Books, 1990 (first published in French in 1961).

Finnegan, Ruth H. Oral Literature in Africa , London: Clarendon P., 1970.

Gilbert, Helen and Joanne Tompkins. Post-Colonial Drama: theory, practice, politics , New York: Routledge, 1996.

Grimshaw, Anna (ed.). The C.L.R. James Reader , Cambridge, Massachusetts: Blackwell, 1992.

James, Adeola. In Their Own Voices : African Women Writers talk Portsmouth, New Hampshire: Heinneman Educational Books Inc, 1990

Julien, Eileen. African Novels and the Question of Orality , Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, 1992.

Lawson, William. The Western Scar : The Theme of the Been-to in West African Fiction , Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press, 1982.

Lazarus, Neil. Resistance in Postcolonial African Fiction , New Haven: Yale University Press, 1990.

Lindsay, Beverly (ed.). African Migration and National Development , University Park: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 1985.

Miller, Christopher L. Theories of Africans : Francophone Literature and Anthropology in Africa , Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1990.

Ngugi waThiong'o. Decolonizing the Mind : The Politics of Language in African Literature , Portsmouth, New Hampshire: Heinemann, 1994 (first published in 1986).

Nkrumah, Kwame. Neo-Colonialism : The Last Stage of Imperialism , London: Panaf Books Limited, 1971 (first published in 1965).

-- Revolutionary Path , New York: International Publishers, 1973.

Odamtten, Vincent O. The Art Of Ama Ata Aidoo : Polylectics and Reading Against Neocolonialism Gainesville, Florida: University Press of Florida, 1994.

Ogundipe-Leslie, Molara. Re-Creating Ourselves : African Women & Critical Transformations , Trenton, New Jersey: Africa World Press, 1994.

Okpewho, Isidore. African Oral Literature : Backgrounds, Character, and Continuity , Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, 1992.

Priebe, Richard K. (ed.). Ghanaian Literatures New York: Greenwood Press, 1988.

Stratton, Florence.Contemporary African Literature and the Politics of Gender New York: Routledge, 1994.

Sutherland, Efua T. Edufa London: Longman African Classic, 1991 (first published in Longman African Classic in 1987).

-- The Marriage of Anansewa , London: Longman Drumbeat, 1986 (first published in 1975).

Williams, Patrick and Laura Chrisman (eds.). Colonial Discourse and Post- Colonial Theory, A Reader , New York: Columbia University Press, 1994.

Achebe, Chinua. "Colonialist Criticism" from The Post-Colonial Studies Reader edited by Bill Ashcroft, Gareth Griffiths and Helen Tiffin (eds.). London: Routledge, 1995. p.57-61.

-- "The African Writer and the English Language"from Colonial Discourse and Post-Colonial Theory, A Reader edited by Patrick Williams and Laura Chrisman, Columbia University Press, New York, 1994.p.428- 434.

Adelugba, Dapo. "Language and Drama: Ama Ata Aidoo"Ghanaian Literatures edited by Richard K. Priebe, New York: Greenwood Press, 1988.p.187-201.

Arnove, Anthony. "Pierre Bourdieu, the Sociology of Intellectuals, and the Language of African Literature." Novel : A Forum on Fiction 26.3 (Spring 1993): p.278-296.

Callinicos, Alex. "Marxism and Imperialism Today" from Marxism and the New Imperialism , Chicago: Bookmarks, 1994. p.11-66.

Dill, Bonnie Thornton. "Race, Class, and Gender: Prospects for an All- Inclusive Sisterhood", Feminist Studies ,9, no.1 (Spring 1983) p.131-148.

Galli, Silvano. 'storytelling Among the Anyi-Bona" (publication information unavailable).

George, Rosemary Marangoly and Helen Scott. "'A new tail to an old tale': An Interview with Ama Ata Aidoo", Novel : A Forum on Fiction 26. 3 (Spring 1993) p.297-308.

Harman, Chris. "The Return of the National Question" from Marxism and the New Imperialism , Chicago: Bookmarks, 1994.p.187-250.

James, C.L.R. "The People of the Gold Coast", from The C.L.R. James Reader , edited by Anna Grimshaw, Cambridge, Massachusetts: Blackwell, 1992. p.347-353.

-- "The Rise and Fall of Nkrumah", from The C.L.R. James Reader , edited by Anna Grimshaw, Cambridge, Massachusetts: Blackwell, 1992. p.352-361.

Johnson, Robert C. "Internal Brain Drain and Development: A Case Study of Senegalese Higher Education"from African Migration and National Development , edited by Beverly Lindsay, University Park: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 1985. p.126-147.

MacKenzie, Clayton G. "The Discourse of Sweetness in Ama Ata Aidoo's No Sweetness Here ", Studies in Short Fiction 32.2, p.161-170.

Mohanty, Chandra T. "Cartographies of Struggle: Third World Women and the Politics of Feminism" from Third World Women and the Politics of Feminism, Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1991.p.1-47.

-- "Under Western Eyes: Feminist Scholarship and Colonial Discourses", from Colonial Discourse and Post-Colonial Theory, A Reader edited by Patrick Williams and Laura Chrisman, Columbia University Press, New York, 1994. p.196-220.

Needham, Anuradha Dingwaney. "An Interview with Ama Ata Aidoo", The Massachusetts Review 36.1 (Spring 1995) p.123-133.

Petersen, Kirsten Holst. "First Things First: Problems of a Feminist Approach to African Literature" from The Post-Colonial Studies Reader edited by Bill Ashcroft, Gareth Griffiths and Helen Tiffin (eds.). London: Routledge, 1995. p.251-254.

Schipper, Mineke. "Women and Literature in Africa" from Unheard Words: Women and Literature in Africa, the Arab World, Asia, the Caribbean, and Latin America ,New York: Allison & Busby, 1985.

Senghor, Leopold Sedar. "Negritude : A Humanism of the Twentieth Century," from Colonial Discourse and Post-Colonial Theory, A Reader edited by Patrick Williams and Laura Chrisman, Columbia University Press, New York, 1994. p.27-35.

Skinner, Elliot P. "Labor Migration and National Development in Africa" from African Migration and National Development , edited by Beverly Lindsay, University Park: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 1985. p.18-39.

Smith, Sharon. "Mistaken Identity -- or can identity politics liberate the oppressed?" International Socialism : A quarterly journal of socialist t heory , 62 (Spring 1994) p.3-47.

Yankah, Kwesi. "The Making and Breaking of Kwame Nkrumah: The Role of Oral Poetry", Ghanaian Literatures edited by Richard K. Priebe, New York: Greenwood Press, 1988.p.43-57.