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Talons, David Long
An Easy Thing To Remember, Blair Oliver
Wintering, Margrethe Ahlschwede
Hardware, R. Mark Elling
Leaving The Ranch, William Kittredge
Virgil, No, Monique Wittig
More Workingman's Blues, Will Getelman
The Man Who Talked To Houses, Donley Watt
Nights Of Time, Sam Michel
Telling The Chicken; Papa's Remedy, Kellie Wells
The Last Annual Bar None Benefit Barbecue And Stakes Race, David Racine
The Last Annual Bar None Benefit Barbecue And Stakes Race, David Racine
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Salvage, Kipp Wessel
The Politics Of Exile: Ama Ata Aidoo's Our Sister Killjoy, Gay Wilentz
The Politics Of Exile: Ama Ata Aidoo's Our Sister Killjoy, Gay Wilentz
Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature
Ama Ata Aidoo's Our Sister Killjoy or Reflections from a Black-Eyed Squint is a relentless attack on the notions of exile as relief from the societal constraints of national development and freedom to live in a cultural environment conducive to creativity. In this personalized prose/poem, Aidoo questions certain prescribed theories of exile (including the reasons for exile)—particularly among African men. The novel exposes a rarely heard viewpoint in literature in English—that of the African woman exile. Aidoo's protagonist Sissie, as the "eye" of her people, is a sojourner in the "civilized" world of the colonizers. In this article, I examine …