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| Original Title: | Our Sister Killjoy (Longman African Writers Series) |
| ISBN: | 0582308453 (ISBN13: 9780582308459) |
| Edition Language: | English |
Ama Ata Aidoo
Paperback | Pages: 134 pages Rating: 3.84 | 891 Users | 58 Reviews
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| Title | : | Our Sister Killjoy |
| Author | : | Ama Ata Aidoo |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 134 pages |
| Published | : | August 19th 1997 by Longman (first published 1977) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Cultural. Africa. Poetry. Western Africa. Ghana. Literature. African Literature |
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Out of Africa with her degree and her all-seeing eyes comes Sissie. She comes to Europe, to a land of towering mountains and low grey skies and tries to make sense of it all. What is she doing here? Why aren't the natives friendly? And what will she do when she goes back home?Ghanaian writer Ama Ata Aidoo's brilliantly conceived prose poem is by turns bitter and gentle, and is a highly personal exploration of the conflicts between Africa and Europe, between men and women and between a complacent acceptance of the status quo and a passionate desire to reform a rotten world. Of her own writing, Ama Ata Aidoo says, "I write about people, about what strikes me and interests me. It seems the most natural thing in the world for women to write with women as central characters; making women the centre of my universe was spontaneous."
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Ratings: 3.84 From 891 Users | 58 ReviewsCommentary Containing Books Our Sister Killjoy
Ama Ata Aidoo, has done it again, she touches on various issues through the lens of her main character, our sister Sissie. She presents the world through Sissie's squint. I enjoyed reading the book. It's interspersed with verse, and short poems that are succinct and adds a different flavor to the plot. The Ghanaian immigrant's struggle, family relations, and oppression are all dealt with here, sometimes very subtly. Sissie's world view is relevant in contemporary times as they were then when Amaalmost poetry, almost manifesto, almost a subconscious musing. almost a novel.it took me a long time to finish this book, mostly because I inhaled it at first as part of my presentation. and then, when I could read it at my own pace.... I did just that.ama ata aidoo brings up question in Our Sister Killjoy that chimamanda ngozi adichie also wants to ask in Americanah: why aren't you coming back? what's making you stay? if I had read it earlier, I might have included it as part of my undergrad
One of the best books Ive read this year. Our Sister Killjoy has managed to fill the void Ive been battling/constantly grappling with, wrt my conflicting feelings on Afropolitanism, 1st gen Americans, living abroad, assimilation, the real African, moving back to the continent & the savior mentality the been-tos bring, feminism, loneliness. A LOT is explored in this short book and its fucking golden. I wish I read this earlier in my life.I dont know if I can even write a full review on this
This prose poetry novella explores interesting themes in a really fresh way: colonialism, moving overseas, the meaning of home, the value of postcolonial nationalism, women in both European and African society, and more.The writing was interesting and quite beautiful - but overall, the book left me pretty untouched. I didn't feel connected to the characters, felt neither good nor bad for them, and I think at times the poetry paragraphs took me out of the story, making me focus too much on the
This creative work, which mixes poetry and prose, speaks to the political and personal violence of European colonialism in Africa. I like how it presents Sissie's journey of defining herself as an educated woman of color within a society that has supposedly "moved beyond" this experience.
This is something I should probably read a few times before trying to get my head around, but it was a pretty enjoyable read. I liked Aidoo's exploration into systems of gender and queerness as they relate to colonial and post-colonial settings.
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