Helen Yitah
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 186222 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Helen Yitah |
| NOMBRES | Helen |
| APELLIDO | Yitah |
| FIRMA | YITAH H |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Ghana |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3998-5500 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 11 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 7 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 10 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2009 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
Children’s Moral Agency within the Kasena Community, Northern Ghana
Questions have been raised across the human sciences as to whether children’s moral development proceeds as a universal process or whether instead it varies with socio-political factors, culture, or life experiences. However, these investigations rarely countenance children as fully constituted moral agents in their own right. This paper looks at how rural African children demonstrate moral agency in their spontaneous, unstructured and undirected…
Mothers of invention
Introduction
When Roland Barthes declares the death of the author, he states that “writing is the destruction of every voice, of every point of origin” (142). The text is “multi-dimensional,” a cacophony of voices, a moment where other previous writings meet, combine, get playfully reimagined (146). Once we allow for the futility of attempting to uncover original intention, the perfect and unified meaning lent power by the transcendental Author, then no readi…
Of Bonds and Commitment
Artistic Expression through (Re)Creation
This paper examines rural Ghanaian children’s creative performance of play songs in the context of recent scholarship on children’s rights in children’s literature. This scholarship, which has focused mainly on written literature in western contexts, seeks to give serious literary attention to children’s creative expression and thereby uphold their rights to contribute to the artistic life and culture of their societies. Kasena children of northe…
Hard-Headed and Masculine-Hearted Women
This essay undertakes a gendered analysis of Mabel Dove-Danquah's fiction within the context of nationalist Ghanaian literature. Dove-Danquah and her contemporaries who wrote during the late nineteenth to early twentieth century portrayed almost all the ideas and ideology of modern African thought and many of the themes, modes, and techniques found in African literature today. Moreover, through their preoccupation with nationhood, race consciousn…
ALT 34 Diaspora & Returns in Fiction
Imagined or actual returns to a "homeland" in African literature are examined in relation to changing concepts of identity, belonging, migration and space. This special issue focuses on literary texts by African writers in which the protagonist returns to his/her "original" or ancestral "home" in Africa from other parts of the world. Ideas of return - intentional and actual - have been a consistent feature of the literature of Africa and the Afri…
Memories Out of Time / Recalling Home
Controlling deviant wives
This article looks at two early Ghanaian novels, A. Native’s Marita: or the Folly of Love (serialized in 1886–88) and R.E. Obeng’s Eighteenpence (1943), which portray conjugal life in colonial Ghana during a time of legislative and judicial transition. They deal with ways in which both the colonial administration and traditional authorities attempted to regulate the contested arena of marriage. The novels create the impression that such external …
Kasena women's critique of gender roles and gender justice through proverbial jesting
This article analyzes proverbs used by Kasena women from northern Ghana in their effort to critique gendered perceptions of justice in their society. This critique takes place within the socially approved medium of the joking relationship that pertains between a Kasena woman and her husband's kin. The joking relationship permits joking partners to give their views free reign and therefore provides a safe avenue for women to express their own atti…
Fighting with Proverbs”
This study is an attempt to document and critically explore what I term the "proverbial revolt" of Kasena women from northern Ghana. The women take advantage of a socially sanctioned medium, the joking relationship that exists between a Kasena woman and her husband's siblings or kin of the same generation, to subvert, contradict, and deconstruct the sexist ideology in Kasem proverbs. In the process, they create a corpus of "counter-proverbs" by w…
Kasena women's critique of gender roles and gender justice through proverbial jesting
This article analyzes proverbs used by Kasena women from northern Ghana in their effort to critique gendered perceptions of justice in their society. This critique takes place within the socially approved medium of the joking relationship that pertains between a Kasena woman and her husband's kin. The joking relationship permits joking partners to give their views free reign and therefore provides a safe avenue for women to express their own atti…
Mothers of invention
Controlling deviant wives
This article looks at two early Ghanaian novels, A. Native’s Marita: or the Folly of Love (serialized in 1886–88) and R.E. Obeng’s Eighteenpence (1943), which portray conjugal life in colonial Ghana during a time of legislative and judicial transition. They deal with ways in which both the colonial administration and traditional authorities attempted to regulate the contested arena of marriage. The novels create the impression that such external …
Fighting with Proverbs”
This study is an attempt to document and critically explore what I term the "proverbial revolt" of Kasena women from northern Ghana. The women take advantage of a socially sanctioned medium, the joking relationship that exists between a Kasena woman and her husband's siblings or kin of the same generation, to subvert, contradict, and deconstruct the sexist ideology in Kasem proverbs. In the process, they create a corpus of "counter-proverbs" by w…
Fighting with Proverbs”
This study is an attempt to document and critically explore what I term the "proverbial revolt" of Kasena women from northern Ghana. The women take advantage of a socially sanctioned medium, the joking relationship that exists between a Kasena woman and her husband's siblings or kin of the same generation, to subvert, contradict, and deconstruct the sexist ideology in Kasem proverbs. In the process, they create a corpus of "counter-proverbs" by w…
Memories Out of Time / Recalling Home
Controlling deviant wives
This article looks at two early Ghanaian novels, A. Native’s Marita: or the Folly of Love (serialized in 1886–88) and R.E. Obeng’s Eighteenpence (1943), which portray conjugal life in colonial Ghana during a time of legislative and judicial transition. They deal with ways in which both the colonial administration and traditional authorities attempted to regulate the contested arena of marriage. The novels create the impression that such external …
Kasena women's critique of gender roles and gender justice through proverbial jesting
This article analyzes proverbs used by Kasena women from northern Ghana in their effort to critique gendered perceptions of justice in their society. This critique takes place within the socially approved medium of the joking relationship that pertains between a Kasena woman and her husband's kin. The joking relationship permits joking partners to give their views free reign and therefore provides a safe avenue for women to express their own atti…
ALT 34 Diaspora & Returns in Fiction
Imagined or actual returns to a "homeland" in African literature are examined in relation to changing concepts of identity, belonging, migration and space. This special issue focuses on literary texts by African writers in which the protagonist returns to his/her "original" or ancestral "home" in Africa from other parts of the world. Ideas of return - intentional and actual - have been a consistent feature of the literature of Africa and the Afri…
Hard-Headed and Masculine-Hearted Women
This essay undertakes a gendered analysis of Mabel Dove-Danquah's fiction within the context of nationalist Ghanaian literature. Dove-Danquah and her contemporaries who wrote during the late nineteenth to early twentieth century portrayed almost all the ideas and ideology of modern African thought and many of the themes, modes, and techniques found in African literature today. Moreover, through their preoccupation with nationhood, race consciousn…
Artistic Expression through (Re)Creation
This paper examines rural Ghanaian children’s creative performance of play songs in the context of recent scholarship on children’s rights in children’s literature. This scholarship, which has focused mainly on written literature in western contexts, seeks to give serious literary attention to children’s creative expression and thereby uphold their rights to contribute to the artistic life and culture of their societies. Kasena children of northe…
Of Bonds and Commitment
Mothers of invention
Introduction
When Roland Barthes declares the death of the author, he states that “writing is the destruction of every voice, of every point of origin” (142). The text is “multi-dimensional,” a cacophony of voices, a moment where other previous writings meet, combine, get playfully reimagined (146). Once we allow for the futility of attempting to uncover original intention, the perfect and unified meaning lent power by the transcendental Author, then no readi…
Children’s Moral Agency within the Kasena Community, Northern Ghana
Questions have been raised across the human sciences as to whether children’s moral development proceeds as a universal process or whether instead it varies with socio-political factors, culture, or life experiences. However, these investigations rarely countenance children as fully constituted moral agents in their own right. This paper looks at how rural African children demonstrate moral agency in their spontaneous, unstructured and undirected…
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