Can You Really See through a Squint? Theoretical Underpinnings in Ama Ata Aidoo’s Our Sister Killjoy  

Oleh:

Sterling, Cheryl

Jenis: Article from Article
Dalam koleksi: The Journal of Commonwealth Literature vol. 45 no. 1 (Mar. 2010), page 131-150.
Topik: Ama Ata Aidoo; Our Sister Killjoy; travel narrative; African feminism; Pan-Africanism; African literature; deterritorialization; reterritorialization; migratory subjectivity
Fulltext: Can You Really See through a Squint.pdf (184.35KB)

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Ama Ata Aidoo’s Our Sister Killjoy is read as an inversion of the colonial travel narrative, addressing the continued asymmetrical power relations between Europe and Africa. The paper posits Sissie, its focal character, as a site of theoretical transformations, engaging with issues of racial subjectivity, sexuality and political positionality in relation to the neo-colonial African state. It further argues that Aidoo situates a performative self in the text through an interrogatory narrative voice that succeeds in both deforming the novelistic pattern and participating in the critique of Western subjectivity and hegemonic feminist positioning, while inserting a resistant feminist ideology into Pan-Africanist discourse to re-envision the role of African women in Africa’s development.

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