Ayi Kwei Armah, Radical Iconoclast Pitting Imaginary Worlds Against the Actual

Name: Ayi Kwei Armah, Radical Iconoclast Pitting Imaginary Worlds Against the Actual
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ISBN: 9780325000312

ISBN-10: 032500031X

ISBN-13: 9780325000312

Edition: 1999

Authors: Ode Ogede

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This appraisal of Ayi Kwei Armah's writings charts the novelist's engagement with African history and social life. The author links Armah's art with the complexities of African oral traditions and traces his ability to create literary forms.

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Acknowledgments


Introduction



Bridge across Generations: The Author in the Works, Intention, and Practice



Beyond Fracture, Entrapment, Dislocation, and Marginalization: Images of Regeneration in the Early Novels (The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born and Fragments)



A Modern Middle Passage: Armah in America and the Question of Identity in Why Are We So Blest?



Three Backward Glances: Roads to Freedom in the Late Novels (Two Thousand Seasons, The Healers, and Osiris Rising)



Panoramic Spectacle: The Short Story and Social Stasis


Conclusion


Notes


References


Index