Ama Ato Aidoo’s Black-Eyed Squint and the ‘Voyage in’ Experience: Dis(re)Orienting Blackness and Subverting Colonial Tale
This essay endeavors to read Ama Ata Aidoo’s Our Sister Killjoy with a postocolonially-inflected consciousness. It aims at demonstrating how her work could be read as a sophisticated postcolonial revision of the colonial travel narrative whereby the protagonist’s black-eyed squint operates as ‘the a...
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Addis Ababa University
2011-12-01
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| Series: | Ethiopian Journal of the Social Sciences and Humanities |
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| Online Access: | http://10.90.104.77/index.php/EJSSH/article/view/6185 |