Augustine H Asaah
Biographic Data
| ID | 652932 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Augustine H Asaah |
| GIVEN NAMES | Augustine H |
| FAMILY NAME | Asaah |
| SIGNATURE | ASAAH A H |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Ghana |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7541-4054 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Towards the Empowerment of the Vanquished: African Indigenous Knowledge Systems in Ayi Kwei Armah’s The Healers
Against the background of the 19th century British domination of Ghana, Ayi Kwei Armah’s The Healers (1978) depicts the restorative activities of a group of traditional health practitioners. The paper seeks to place African Indigenous Knowledge Systems at the heart of the resistance to colonialism and imperialism. The paper resorts to a close reading of the narrative guided by perspectives on recuperation provided by Armah, Amilcar Cabral, and Ch…
Between Mother Fixation and Colonial Attraction: Deracination, Ill-Fated Migration, and Redemption in Ken Bugul’s the Abandoned Baobab
The Abandoned Baobab, Ken Bugul’s brutally sincere autofiction, is the prototypal model of African postcolonial, feminist, and psychological narrative built around the post-traumatic stress disorder, self-flagellation, and “excesses” of a speaking female/colonial subject in desperate need of love. The paper analyzes the protagonist’s alienation, identity crises, and ill-starred sojourn in Europe against the backdrop of maternal attachment and abs…
Towards reconstructing Africa: Recuperation and responsibility in Ayi Kwei Armah’s The Healers
A product of Africa’s pre-colonial and colonial history, Ayi Kwei Armah’s fifth novel, The Healers (1978), is steeped in an African communalistic worldview and the functional conception of art. In this article we examine the multiple dimensions to recuperation within the context of the reconstruction of Africa, the continental search for utopia, and the responsibility that this places on Africans. Using Armah’s communitarian perspectives on healt…
What Is Africa to Me? or Maryse Condé's Love-Hate Relationship with "Ancestral Lands" Struggling with Budding Independence
In What Is Africa to Me?, Maryse Condé reflects on her troubled ten-year sojourn in West Africa against the backdrop of a love-hate relationship with Africa, the failures of the African nation-state, and disillusionment with the Pan-Africanist ideal. The paper examines the protagonist’s tribulations and the patriarchal colonization of her body by applying the conceptual tool of Othering from both postcolonial and feminist perspectives. It establi…
Primacy, polemic, and paradox in Ken Bugul’s The abandoned baobab
Arguably considered the prototype of African postcolonial feminist writing by reason of its poignant depiction of taboo subjects such as lesbianism, prostitution, drugs, and suicide, Ken Bugul’s The abandoned baobab has elicited sustained interest from the academy. This paper seeks to contribute to the debate by examining the strands of counter-discourse and postcolonial complicity within the context of the primacy ascribed to myths, the baobab, …
Claire Ducournau. — La fabrique des classiques africains: Écrivains d’Afrique subsaharienne (1960-2012)
Largely sourced from her 2012 EHESS doctoral thesis, Claire Ducournau’s La fabrique des classiques africains: Écrivains d’Afrique subsaharienne francophone is a well-researched socio-literary inquiry into the structural conditions that shape the production, reception, and legitimation of sub-Saharan African artistic creations of French expression. While the study’s underlying anti-hegemonic and postcolonial temper pits it against the institutiona…
Astruc, Rémi & Halen, Pierre (dir.), Le grotesque dans les littératures africaines: Nancy, Université de Lorraine ; Metz, Centre de recherches « Écritures » (« Littératures des mondes contemporains »,…
Codirig par Rmi Astruc et Pierre Halen, cet ouvrage de treize articles reprsente des regards croiss sur les manifestations du grotesque dans la littrature africaine europhone, perspectives bauches initialement lors d'un colloque international tenu Nancy en 2010. En dpit d'un recoupement certain occasionn par le recours inluctable aux textes conceptuels fondateurs comme ceux de Mikhal Bakhtine et de Dominique Iehl, se remarquent diverses approches…
Andrade, Susan E. The Nation Writ Small: African Fictions and Feminisms, 1958-1988
Nourri fondamentalement de rflexions fministes, The Nation Writ Small de Susan Andrade, spcialiste de littrature exerant aux tats-Unis, se focalise sur la place de la sphre familiale dans les rcits nationalistes africains et vient approfondir la critique fministe africaine enrichie par des universitaires comme Juliana Makuchi Nfah-Abbeny 1 , Pierrette Herzberger-Fofana 2 , Kenneth Harrow 3 et Ayo O. Coly 4 . Sur sa quadripartition en chapitres vi…
Analyses et comptes rendus
new monograph, Searching for Normal in the Wake of the Liberian War, expertly addresses aspects of postconflict reconstruction and social trauma that have gone relatively unexamined in social science research. Drawing upon extensive fieldwork and her own experiences working in mental health, Abramowitz documents how global mental health approaches were "vernacularized" in community development programmes during the initial years of Liberia's post…
Towards the Retrieval of the Lost Voice: Contestation and Reclamation of Discourse in Half a Century of African Women’s Europhone Fiction
Les déboires des indépendences dans les deux premiers romans d ́Ahmadou Kourouma
Le paysage affligeant de l'Afrique post indépendance a produit des travaux satiriques majeurs deux de qui sont les soleils des indépendances et Monnè outrage défis, de Ahmadou Kourouma. Ce papier discute les échecs d'indépendance. Pendant que l'usage de pouvoir politique par la caste souveraine pour gains socio-économiques égoïstes au détriment de la communauté moins favorisé. L'article analyse aussi les dimensions interrogatrices et impératives …
Of Pacts, Trickster Ethos, and Impact: A Reading of Ahmadou Kourouma's Les Soleils des indépendances
The article seeks to use the pact factor to interpret Kourouma's ground-breaking novel, Les Soleils des indépendances. The sinister figure of the predatory trickster is discernible in the profiles of the crafty man of religion and the wily dictator, both using myths of legitimization to enhance the success of their pacts with others. A pattern of deceit can also be observed in various societal compacts. In the author's use of language, storytelli…
Postcolonial Relations with Suns: A Comparative Study of Palangyo’s Dying in the Sun and Kourouma’s Les soleils des indépendances
Postcolonial Relations with Suns: A Comparative Study of Palangyo’s Dying in the Sun and Kourouma’s Les soleils des indépendances." Journal of the African Literature Association, 2(1), pp. 113–129
Entre "Femme noire" de Senghor et Femme nue, femme noire de Beyala: Réseau intertextuel de subversion et d'échos
D'apres Mudimbe (1988:94), l'influence incontestable de Leopold Sedar Senghor sur l'intelligentsia notamment francophone n'empeche pas qu'il soit de tous les penseurs africains le plus vilipende. Distanciation et rapprochement, tels sont les termes qui resument, sous cet angle, l'heritage du premier president senegalais, cofondateur avec Aime Cesaire et Leon-Gontran Damas de la Negritude. Ainsi que l'asserte encore l'auteur de The Invention of Af…
To Speak or Not to Speak with the Whole Mouth: Textualization of Taboo Subjects in Europhone African Literature
Taboos, since the dawn of time, have been used by human societies to regulate behavior and discourse. African writers are aware of these codes that regulate conduct, supposedly in the name of the common good. The article discusses taboo adherence and taboo violation in respect of death, madness, sex, and incest in Europhone African literature and concludes that African writers largely display a certain dynamism in their reaction to taboos
Calixthe Beyala ou le discours blasphématoire au propre
Pour Calixthe Beyala comme pour bon nombre de romanciers africains, la peinture de la société postcoloniale passe immanquablement par la dénonciation satirique. Subversive à souhait, sa fiction se double de discours blasphématoire au sens propre. Même si le recours à la langue impie n'est pas étrangère au patrimoine culturel africain, Beyala est l'un des très rares écrivains à l'exploiter, de manière suivie, dans ses romans. S'élevant souvent con…
Veneration and Desecration in Calixthe Beyala's La petite fille du r verb re
The Franco-Cameroonian novelist Calixthe Beyala has, in recent years, made a name for herself as a radical feminist novelist. Her anti-patriarchal and anti-establishment attack takes on an obsessively sacred coloration in her eighth novel, La petite fille du rèverbère, for, while venerating herself, Grandmother, and earth-bound Africa, she systematically desecrates what appears to her as incarnations of the inimical hydra-headed Father: imperiali…
Gender Concerns in Calixthe Beyala’s: The Sun Hath Looked Upon Me
Revers, révolte et réveil dans Tu t'appelleras Tanga de Calixthe Beyala
Entre "Femme noire" de Senghor et Femme nue, femme noire de Beyala: Réseau intertextuel de subversion et d'échos
D'apres Mudimbe (1988:94), l'influence incontestable de Leopold Sedar Senghor sur l'intelligentsia notamment francophone n'empeche pas qu'il soit de tous les penseurs africains le plus vilipende. Distanciation et rapprochement, tels sont les termes qui resument, sous cet angle, l'heritage du premier president senegalais, cofondateur avec Aime Cesaire et Leon-Gontran Damas de la Negritude. Ainsi que l'asserte encore l'auteur de The Invention of Af…
Towards reconstructing Africa: Recuperation and responsibility in Ayi Kwei Armah’s The Healers
A product of Africa’s pre-colonial and colonial history, Ayi Kwei Armah’s fifth novel, The Healers (1978), is steeped in an African communalistic worldview and the functional conception of art. In this article we examine the multiple dimensions to recuperation within the context of the reconstruction of Africa, the continental search for utopia, and the responsibility that this places on Africans. Using Armah’s communitarian perspectives on healt…
Revers, révolte et réveil dans Tu t'appelleras Tanga de Calixthe Beyala
Gender Concerns in Calixthe Beyala’s: The Sun Hath Looked Upon Me
Veneration and Desecration in Calixthe Beyala's La petite fille du r verb re
The Franco-Cameroonian novelist Calixthe Beyala has, in recent years, made a name for herself as a radical feminist novelist. Her anti-patriarchal and anti-establishment attack takes on an obsessively sacred coloration in her eighth novel, La petite fille du rèverbère, for, while venerating herself, Grandmother, and earth-bound Africa, she systematically desecrates what appears to her as incarnations of the inimical hydra-headed Father: imperiali…
To Speak or Not to Speak with the Whole Mouth: Textualization of Taboo Subjects in Europhone African Literature
Taboos, since the dawn of time, have been used by human societies to regulate behavior and discourse. African writers are aware of these codes that regulate conduct, supposedly in the name of the common good. The article discusses taboo adherence and taboo violation in respect of death, madness, sex, and incest in Europhone African literature and concludes that African writers largely display a certain dynamism in their reaction to taboos
Calixthe Beyala ou le discours blasphématoire au propre
Pour Calixthe Beyala comme pour bon nombre de romanciers africains, la peinture de la société postcoloniale passe immanquablement par la dénonciation satirique. Subversive à souhait, sa fiction se double de discours blasphématoire au sens propre. Même si le recours à la langue impie n'est pas étrangère au patrimoine culturel africain, Beyala est l'un des très rares écrivains à l'exploiter, de manière suivie, dans ses romans. S'élevant souvent con…
Of Pacts, Trickster Ethos, and Impact: A Reading of Ahmadou Kourouma's Les Soleils des indépendances
The article seeks to use the pact factor to interpret Kourouma's ground-breaking novel, Les Soleils des indépendances. The sinister figure of the predatory trickster is discernible in the profiles of the crafty man of religion and the wily dictator, both using myths of legitimization to enhance the success of their pacts with others. A pattern of deceit can also be observed in various societal compacts. In the author's use of language, storytelli…
Postcolonial Relations with Suns: A Comparative Study of Palangyo’s Dying in the Sun and Kourouma’s Les soleils des indépendances
Postcolonial Relations with Suns: A Comparative Study of Palangyo’s Dying in the Sun and Kourouma’s Les soleils des indépendances." Journal of the African Literature Association, 2(1), pp. 113–129
Entre "Femme noire" de Senghor et Femme nue, femme noire de Beyala: Réseau intertextuel de subversion et d'échos
D'apres Mudimbe (1988:94), l'influence incontestable de Leopold Sedar Senghor sur l'intelligentsia notamment francophone n'empeche pas qu'il soit de tous les penseurs africains le plus vilipende. Distanciation et rapprochement, tels sont les termes qui resument, sous cet angle, l'heritage du premier president senegalais, cofondateur avec Aime Cesaire et Leon-Gontran Damas de la Negritude. Ainsi que l'asserte encore l'auteur de The Invention of Af…
Towards the Retrieval of the Lost Voice: Contestation and Reclamation of Discourse in Half a Century of African Women’s Europhone Fiction
Les déboires des indépendences dans les deux premiers romans d ́Ahmadou Kourouma
Le paysage affligeant de l'Afrique post indépendance a produit des travaux satiriques majeurs deux de qui sont les soleils des indépendances et Monnè outrage défis, de Ahmadou Kourouma. Ce papier discute les échecs d'indépendance. Pendant que l'usage de pouvoir politique par la caste souveraine pour gains socio-économiques égoïstes au détriment de la communauté moins favorisé. L'article analyse aussi les dimensions interrogatrices et impératives …
Astruc, Rémi & Halen, Pierre (dir.), Le grotesque dans les littératures africaines: Nancy, Université de Lorraine ; Metz, Centre de recherches « Écritures » (« Littératures des mondes contemporains »,…
Codirig par Rmi Astruc et Pierre Halen, cet ouvrage de treize articles reprsente des regards croiss sur les manifestations du grotesque dans la littrature africaine europhone, perspectives bauches initialement lors d'un colloque international tenu Nancy en 2010. En dpit d'un recoupement certain occasionn par le recours inluctable aux textes conceptuels fondateurs comme ceux de Mikhal Bakhtine et de Dominique Iehl, se remarquent diverses approches…
Andrade, Susan E. The Nation Writ Small: African Fictions and Feminisms, 1958-1988
Nourri fondamentalement de rflexions fministes, The Nation Writ Small de Susan Andrade, spcialiste de littrature exerant aux tats-Unis, se focalise sur la place de la sphre familiale dans les rcits nationalistes africains et vient approfondir la critique fministe africaine enrichie par des universitaires comme Juliana Makuchi Nfah-Abbeny 1 , Pierrette Herzberger-Fofana 2 , Kenneth Harrow 3 et Ayo O. Coly 4 . Sur sa quadripartition en chapitres vi…
Analyses et comptes rendus
new monograph, Searching for Normal in the Wake of the Liberian War, expertly addresses aspects of postconflict reconstruction and social trauma that have gone relatively unexamined in social science research. Drawing upon extensive fieldwork and her own experiences working in mental health, Abramowitz documents how global mental health approaches were "vernacularized" in community development programmes during the initial years of Liberia's post…
Primacy, polemic, and paradox in Ken Bugul’s The abandoned baobab
Arguably considered the prototype of African postcolonial feminist writing by reason of its poignant depiction of taboo subjects such as lesbianism, prostitution, drugs, and suicide, Ken Bugul’s The abandoned baobab has elicited sustained interest from the academy. This paper seeks to contribute to the debate by examining the strands of counter-discourse and postcolonial complicity within the context of the primacy ascribed to myths, the baobab, …
Claire Ducournau. — La fabrique des classiques africains: Écrivains d’Afrique subsaharienne (1960-2012)
Largely sourced from her 2012 EHESS doctoral thesis, Claire Ducournau’s La fabrique des classiques africains: Écrivains d’Afrique subsaharienne francophone is a well-researched socio-literary inquiry into the structural conditions that shape the production, reception, and legitimation of sub-Saharan African artistic creations of French expression. While the study’s underlying anti-hegemonic and postcolonial temper pits it against the institutiona…
What Is Africa to Me? or Maryse Condé's Love-Hate Relationship with "Ancestral Lands" Struggling with Budding Independence
In What Is Africa to Me?, Maryse Condé reflects on her troubled ten-year sojourn in West Africa against the backdrop of a love-hate relationship with Africa, the failures of the African nation-state, and disillusionment with the Pan-Africanist ideal. The paper examines the protagonist’s tribulations and the patriarchal colonization of her body by applying the conceptual tool of Othering from both postcolonial and feminist perspectives. It establi…
Towards reconstructing Africa: Recuperation and responsibility in Ayi Kwei Armah’s The Healers
A product of Africa’s pre-colonial and colonial history, Ayi Kwei Armah’s fifth novel, The Healers (1978), is steeped in an African communalistic worldview and the functional conception of art. In this article we examine the multiple dimensions to recuperation within the context of the reconstruction of Africa, the continental search for utopia, and the responsibility that this places on Africans. Using Armah’s communitarian perspectives on healt…
Between Mother Fixation and Colonial Attraction: Deracination, Ill-Fated Migration, and Redemption in Ken Bugul’s the Abandoned Baobab
The Abandoned Baobab, Ken Bugul’s brutally sincere autofiction, is the prototypal model of African postcolonial, feminist, and psychological narrative built around the post-traumatic stress disorder, self-flagellation, and “excesses” of a speaking female/colonial subject in desperate need of love. The paper analyzes the protagonist’s alienation, identity crises, and ill-starred sojourn in Europe against the backdrop of maternal attachment and abs…
Towards the Empowerment of the Vanquished: African Indigenous Knowledge Systems in Ayi Kwei Armah’s The Healers
Against the background of the 19th century British domination of Ghana, Ayi Kwei Armah’s The Healers (1978) depicts the restorative activities of a group of traditional health practitioners. The paper seeks to place African Indigenous Knowledge Systems at the heart of the resistance to colonialism and imperialism. The paper resorts to a close reading of the narrative guided by perspectives on recuperation provided by Armah, Amilcar Cabral, and Ch…
African history and culture studies (12 works) · Art (12 works) · Sociology (12 works) · Political science (11 works) · Philosophy (9 works) · Caribbean and African Literature and Culture (8 works) · History (8 works) · Gender Studies (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies (7 works)