Kwadwo Osei-Nyame
Biographic Data
| ID | 76369 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kwadwo Osei-Nyame |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kwadwo |
| FAMILY NAME | Osei-Nyame |
| SIGNATURE | OSEI-NYAME K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Wadham College, University of Oxford, England |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Neo-Colonialism and alienation in African fiction: Ayi Kwei Armah’s Fragments
This article examines the themes of neo-colonialism and alienation in Ayi Kwei Armah’s novel Fragments. It contends that these are two of the most topical subjects within African existence in the contemporary era and are still very directly related to the present African predicament of a seemingly developmentally slow and retrogressing continent. Alienation and neo-colonialism are also inextricably intertwined with the whole question of nation-bu…
The politics of 'translation' in African postcolonial literature: Olaudah Equiano, Ayi Kwei Armah, Toni Morrison, Ama Ata Aidoo, Tayeb Salih and Leila Aboulela
The essay examines the discourse of African self-rehabilitation and African self-translation by focusing on the politics of translation within African postcolonial literature. It begins by expounding on different aspects of the concept of translation within cultural studies. It then proceeds to elucidate its argument with selected examples from the work of African writers Olaudah Equiano, Ayi Kwei Armah, Toni Morrison, Ama Ata Aidoo, Tayeb Salih …
Mapping Intersections: African Literature and Africa's Development
Anne V. Adams and Janis A. Mayes (eds), Mapping Intersections: African literature and Africa's development. African Literature Association 2. Trenton NJ: Africa World Press, 1998, 316 pp., US19.95, ISBN 0 86543 634 7 (paperback). - Volume 71 Issue 2
Chinua Achebe Writing Culture: Representations of Gender and Tradition in Things Fall Apart
While Achebe's early novels have been popularly received for their representation of an early African nationalist tradition that repudiates imperialist and colonialist ideology, his counter-narratives have only been narrowly discussed for their theoretical speculation on cultural and ideological production as a mode of resistance within the nationalist tradition that the texts so evidently celebrate. My epigraph not only recognizes that the defin…
Love and Nation: Fanon's African Revolution and Ayi Kwei Armah's The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born
Mapping Intersections: African Literature and Africa's Development
Anne V. Adams and Janis A. Mayes (eds), Mapping Intersections: African literature and Africa's development. African Literature Association 2. Trenton NJ: Africa World Press, 1998, 316 pp., US19.95, ISBN 0 86543 634 7 (paperback). - Volume 71 Issue 2
The politics of 'translation' in African postcolonial literature: Olaudah Equiano, Ayi Kwei Armah, Toni Morrison, Ama Ata Aidoo, Tayeb Salih and Leila Aboulela
The essay examines the discourse of African self-rehabilitation and African self-translation by focusing on the politics of translation within African postcolonial literature. It begins by expounding on different aspects of the concept of translation within cultural studies. It then proceeds to elucidate its argument with selected examples from the work of African writers Olaudah Equiano, Ayi Kwei Armah, Toni Morrison, Ama Ata Aidoo, Tayeb Salih …
Love and Nation: Fanon's African Revolution and Ayi Kwei Armah's The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born
Chinua Achebe Writing Culture: Representations of Gender and Tradition in Things Fall Apart
While Achebe's early novels have been popularly received for their representation of an early African nationalist tradition that repudiates imperialist and colonialist ideology, his counter-narratives have only been narrowly discussed for their theoretical speculation on cultural and ideological production as a mode of resistance within the nationalist tradition that the texts so evidently celebrate. My epigraph not only recognizes that the defin…
Love and Nation: Fanon's African Revolution and Ayi Kwei Armah's The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born
Chinua Achebe Writing Culture: Representations of Gender and Tradition in Things Fall Apart
While Achebe's early novels have been popularly received for their representation of an early African nationalist tradition that repudiates imperialist and colonialist ideology, his counter-narratives have only been narrowly discussed for their theoretical speculation on cultural and ideological production as a mode of resistance within the nationalist tradition that the texts so evidently celebrate. My epigraph not only recognizes that the defin…
Mapping Intersections: African Literature and Africa's Development
Anne V. Adams and Janis A. Mayes (eds), Mapping Intersections: African literature and Africa's development. African Literature Association 2. Trenton NJ: Africa World Press, 1998, 316 pp., US19.95, ISBN 0 86543 634 7 (paperback). - Volume 71 Issue 2
The politics of 'translation' in African postcolonial literature: Olaudah Equiano, Ayi Kwei Armah, Toni Morrison, Ama Ata Aidoo, Tayeb Salih and Leila Aboulela
The essay examines the discourse of African self-rehabilitation and African self-translation by focusing on the politics of translation within African postcolonial literature. It begins by expounding on different aspects of the concept of translation within cultural studies. It then proceeds to elucidate its argument with selected examples from the work of African writers Olaudah Equiano, Ayi Kwei Armah, Toni Morrison, Ama Ata Aidoo, Tayeb Salih …
Neo-Colonialism and alienation in African fiction: Ayi Kwei Armah’s Fragments
This article examines the themes of neo-colonialism and alienation in Ayi Kwei Armah’s novel Fragments. It contends that these are two of the most topical subjects within African existence in the contemporary era and are still very directly related to the present African predicament of a seemingly developmentally slow and retrogressing continent. Alienation and neo-colonialism are also inextricably intertwined with the whole question of nation-bu…
African history and culture studies (4 works) · Art (4 works) · History (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · History (3 works) · Literature (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works)