The postcolonial world as a cargo globe
Ideas of inequality in early Ghanaian fiction, 1968-1977
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2141237 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Mélanie Lindbjerg Machado-Guichon (0000-0002-2489-9861, Aarhus University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 58 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 601-620 |
| Publication date | 2024-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue canadienne des études africaines (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0008-3968 • E-ISSN: 1923-3051 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/00083968.2024.2360582 |
| OpenAlex | W4400957040 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 33 |
Reconstructing the thinking on inequality of Ghanaian writers-cum-intellectuals Ama Ata Aidoo and Ayi Kwei Armah, this article contributes to the burgeoning research on inequality in literature and to global and African intellectual history. While both authors have mainly been studied by literary scholars, little work has been done to focus explicitly on their ideas about global inequality. This article investigates how ideas of inequality and concepts of an unequal world figure in the writers' early fictional works and unfolds how these authors were influenced by their trajectories within transatlantic intellectual networks, including key inequality thinkers such as W. E. B. Du Bois, Kwame Nkrumah and Walter Rodney. In their early novels, both writers reactivated the enslaved figure to counter the widespread rhetoric of emancipation of the early independence period, articulating neo-colonial critiques based on an anachronistic use of slavery-related metaphors and conceptions of the postcolonial world as a "cargo globe
Anachronism · Art · Colonialism · Emancipation · Globe · Independence (probability theory · Inequality · Kwame · Linguistics · Literature · Political science · Politics · Rhetoric · Sociology · African cultural and philosophical studies · African studies and sociopolitical issues · Anthropology · History · Law · Philosophy · Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies
The Economy of Ghana
Capital in the Twenty-First Century
Futures Past
The Political and Social Thought of Kwame Nkrumah
Towards a Global Intellectual History of an Unequal World
A Change of Heart’
Decolonization and African Society
Interview with Ama Ata Aidoo
The Slave Trade in Northern Ghana
Nkrumaism and African Nationalism
The Curse of Constant Remembrance
West African Literatures
Devices of Evasion
Love and Nation
The Fanonian dialectic
Ayi Kwei Armah's Radical Pan-African Itinerary
Neo-Colonialism
Unmasking communism
Humane
Cargo Cult
Metaphor and the slave trade in West African Literature
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |