FonTomFrom: Contemporary Ghanaian Literature, Theatre and FilmKofi Anyidoho, James Gibbs From the contents: Kwadwo OPOKU-AGYEMANG: Cape coast castle: the edifice and the metaphor. - Ebow DANIEL: In celebration of a harvest of contemporary Ghanaian Writing. John K. DJISENU: The art of narrative drama in Ghana. - Efua T. SUTHERLAND: The second phase of the national theatre movement in Ghana. - Kofi ANYIDOHO: Dr Efua Sutherland: a biographical sketch. - Kofi ANYIDOHO: Mother courage (a tribute to Auntie Efua from all her children in the arts). - Anne V. ADAMS: Revis(it)ing ritual: the challenge to the virility of tradition in works by Efua Sutherland and other African writers. |
Contents
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The Second Phase of the National Theatre Movement in Ghana | 45 |
From All Her Children in the Arts | 83 |
EFUA T SUTHERLAND | 95 |
A Bibliography of Primary Materials | 117 |
F NIIYARTEY | 125 |
Romantic Fiction | 155 |
E KROPPDAKUBU | 235 |
R KOBENA EYI ACQUAH | 243 |
R KOFI AWOONOR | 253 |
Poems from Testimonies of Exile | 261 |
E SUTHERLANDADDY | 265 |
A List of Ghanaian Feature Video Films 19871993 | 278 |
R KWABWO OPOKUAGYEMAN | 323 |
Watu Wazuri 1 | 333 |
The Womans Voice | 165 |
Narrative as Tactics in Armahs Two Thousand Seasons | 173 |
The Thematic and Formal Importance of the Cinema | 189 |
145 | 190 |
She Who Would Be King | 197 |
KWAKUVI AZASU | 203 |
A N MENSAH | 217 |
LEIF LORENTZON | 227 |
The Media | 337 |
Book Reviews | 346 |
W OFOTSU ADINKU | 351 |
MOHAMMED BEN ABDALLAH | 363 |
Latin American and Caribbean Notebook Robert Fraser 1 | 369 |
LEIF LORENTZON | 377 |
On Plays and Playwriting Anastasia Agbenyega James Gibbs 59 | 381 |
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