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Title: | FonTomFrom: contemporary Ghanaian literature, theatre and film |
Editors: | Anyidoho, Kofi Gibbs, James |
Year: | 2000 |
Periodical: | Matatu: Journal for African Culture and Society (ISSN 0932-9714) |
Volume: | 21-22 |
Pages: | 383 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Ghana |
Subjects: | cinema theatre literature |
External link: | https://brill.com/abstract/journals/mata/21-22/1/mata.21-22.issue-1.xml |
Abstract: | This special issue of Matatu on contemporary literature, theatre and film from Ghana starts with an introductory chapter by Kofi Anyidoho on national identity and the language metaphor. This is followed by chapters on Cape Coast Castle, the edifice and the metaphor (Kwadwo Opoku-Agyemang), contemporary Ghanaian writing (Ebow Daniel), narrative drama (John K. Djisenu), and the National Theatre Movement (Efua T. Sutherland). Four chapters are devoted to the cultural activist and dramatist Efua Theodora Sutherland, who died in 1996 (Kofi Ayidoho, Anne V. Adams, and James Gibbs). Further chapters are those by F. Nii-Yartey on choreographic expression, W. Ofotsu Adinku on the Ghana Dance Ensemble, Kwesi Yankah on the sung tale metaphor adopted by Nana Kwame Ampadu, Jane Bryce and Kari Dako on black women's fiction, Irene M. Danysh on Ama Ata Aidoo's 'Changes' (1991), Francis Ngaboh-Smart on Ayi Kwei Armah's 'Two thousand seasons' (1973), Philip Whyte on the cinema in Ayi Kwei Armah's writing, Vincent Okpoti Odamtten on the poetry of Ama Ata Aidoo, A.N. Mensah on the love poetry of Kofi Anyidoho, Leif Lorentzon on the first poems by Ayi Kwei Armah, M.E. Kropp-Dakubu on Kojo Laing's poetry, E. Sutherland-Addy and Africanus Aveh on Ghana's video production, Kofi Anyidoho on Kwaw Ansah's film 'Heritage Africa', and James Gibbs on the video 'Matters of the heart'. In the next section Woeli A. Dekutsey focuses on book publishing, Chris Kwame Awuyah on print and nonprint media, and W. Ofotsu Adinku on choreographic works in Ghana. Finally, the volume contains interviews with Mohammed Ben Abdallah, Bill Marshall, Kwaw Ansah, Kwaku Sakyi-Ado and David Newton, creative writing by Efna T. Sutherland, Ama Ata Aidoo, Kwakuvi Azasu, Kobena Eyi Acquah, Kofi Awoonor, Kwesi Brew, Abena Busia, Kwabwo Opoku-Agyeman, and Atukwei Okai, and a number of book reviews. |