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Ama Ata Aidoo’s Anowa: Performative Practice and the Postcolonial Subject

Lambert, Jade Maia
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1133810135

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2005, Master of Arts, Miami University, Theatre.
This critical analysis asserts that the play Anowa is a critique of the ideologies imposed upon the African postcolonial subject. Chapter one is a dramaturgical exploration of the position of oral literature in the perpetuation of the Akan cultural myth through exposure of specific gender discrepancies inherent within its form, and examination of its influence in the creation of modern Ghana whose social and political environment is the inspiration for Aidoo’s work. Chapter two, a literary analysis, positions Aidoo’s construction of Anowa as a performative critique that dismantles the myth of the Akan gendered identity supported through indigenous oral literature, and perpetuated in West African written works, which, in cooperation with colonial indoctrination, entraps the African subject (Anowa). Chapter Three offers a critical analysis of the themes, symbolism, and performative results manifested through the direction and design of the Miami University production of Anowa, which served as the writer’s directing thesis.
Paul Jackson (Advisor)
62 p.
Aidoo, Ama Ata; West African Theatre; Ghanaian Theatre; Ghana; African Writers; African Women Writers; Performativity; Anowa; Oral Literature; Absent Potential; Ethnodramaturgy; Postcolonial; Postcolonial Subject; Theatre Direction; Directing; Sankofa

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  • Lambert, J. M. (2005). Ama Ata Aidoo’s Anowa: Performative Practice and the Postcolonial Subject [Master's thesis, Miami University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1133810135

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Lambert, Jade. Ama Ata Aidoo’s Anowa: Performative Practice and the Postcolonial Subject. 2005. Miami University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1133810135.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Lambert, Jade. "Ama Ata Aidoo’s Anowa: Performative Practice and the Postcolonial Subject." Master's thesis, Miami University, 2005. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1133810135

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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