Dokubo Melford Goodhead
Biographic Data
| ID | 2735872 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dokubo Melford Goodhead |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dokubo Melford |
| FAMILY NAME | Goodhead |
| SIGNATURE | GOODHEAD D M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Independent Researcher and Scholar |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
The Education of Milkman Dead
Rational critique of one's existential condition and questions of why, where, when, who, what dominate Morrison's Song of Solomon. As she clearly shows in the novel, it is in finding answers to these questions that one is better able to deal with one's existential condition and, where necessary, to make the transition from fragmentation to wholeness as a subject dealing with the history and experience of a racial formation that renders one either…
The Resisting Spectator and The Green Mile
Contemporary Hollywood filmmakers often look to classical Hollywood cinema for inspiration. In doing so, they also often coopt the codes of production of the earlier era of Hollywood filmmaking and reproduce its racist stereotypes of blacks. The memory film, The Green Mile, is an example of such a film. Reading the film as a resisting spectator, a term coined by the film scholar Manthia Diawara, I show how in making a return to classical Hollywoo…
Tradition and the African Children’s Storyteller
Africa’s oral storytelling tradition holds riches that are still largely untapped. A comparative reading of Amos Tutuola’s ‘The Complete Gentleman’, in his The Palm-Wine Drinkard, and Ama Ata Aidoo’s play Anowa offers clues on how to explore this heritage for the contemporary world. Both writers have adapted the tale of the headstrong/disobedient girl, who refuses all suitors from her own people, only to marry a monstrous stranger. The two author…
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Tradition and the African Children’s Storyteller
Africa’s oral storytelling tradition holds riches that are still largely untapped. A comparative reading of Amos Tutuola’s ‘The Complete Gentleman’, in his The Palm-Wine Drinkard, and Ama Ata Aidoo’s play Anowa offers clues on how to explore this heritage for the contemporary world. Both writers have adapted the tale of the headstrong/disobedient girl, who refuses all suitors from her own people, only to marry a monstrous stranger. The two author…
The Resisting Spectator and The Green Mile
Contemporary Hollywood filmmakers often look to classical Hollywood cinema for inspiration. In doing so, they also often coopt the codes of production of the earlier era of Hollywood filmmaking and reproduce its racist stereotypes of blacks. The memory film, The Green Mile, is an example of such a film. Reading the film as a resisting spectator, a term coined by the film scholar Manthia Diawara, I show how in making a return to classical Hollywoo…
The Education of Milkman Dead
Rational critique of one's existential condition and questions of why, where, when, who, what dominate Morrison's Song of Solomon. As she clearly shows in the novel, it is in finding answers to these questions that one is better able to deal with one's existential condition and, where necessary, to make the transition from fragmentation to wholeness as a subject dealing with the history and experience of a racial formation that renders one either…
Art (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Literature (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies (2 works) · Advertising (1 work) · American and British Literature Analysis (1 work) · American film (1 work) · Anthropology (1 work)