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Ama Ata Aidoo

    23 marzo 1942 – 31 maggio 2023

    Ama Ata Aidoo è un'autrice, poetessa, drammaturga e accademica ghanese il cui lavoro approfondisce le complessità della vita e dell'identità africana. I suoi scritti esplorano spesso gli impatti duraturi del colonialismo e la successiva ricerca di autodeterminazione e autenticità culturale. Aidoo difende la resilienza e lo spirito delle donne africane, infondendo le sue narrazioni con un potente senso di advocacy e un impegno ad amplificare le voci emarginate. Attraverso la sua prosa distintiva, offre un profondo commento sociale e celebra la ricchezza del patrimonio africano.

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    • In this text, the author invites the reader to confront life as it is and to rise to the challenge of injustice and ignorance in post-colonial Ghana.

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      • 208pagine
      • 8 ore di lettura

      A Commonwealth Prize–winning novel of “intense power . . . examining the role of women in modern African society” by the acclaimed Ghanaian author ( Publishers Weekly ).Living in Ghana’s capital city of Accra with a postgraduate degree and a career in data analysis, Esi Sekyi is a thoroughly modern African woman. Perhaps that is why she decides to divorce her husband after enduring yet another morning’s marital rape. Though her friends and family are baffled by her decision (after all, he doesn’t beat her!), Esi holds fast. When she falls in love with a married man—wealthy, and able to arrange a polygamous marriage—the modern woman finds herself trapped in a new set of problems.Witty and compelling, Aidoo’s novel, according to Manthia Diawara, “inaugurates a new realist style in African literature.” In an afterword to this edition, Tuzyline Jita Allan “places Aidoo’s work in a historical context and helps introduce this remarkable writer [who] sheds light on women’s problems around the globe” ( Publishers Weekly ).

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    • Eine Liebesgeschichte, die gegen alle gesellschaftlichen Konventionen verstößt: Esi, eine junge, gutaussehende Akademikerin, liebt ihren Job, ihre Karriere, ihre Privilegien. Sie verläßt ihren Mann, weil sie sich eingeengt fühlt, verliebt sich in den verheirateten Ali, der attraktiv und wohlhabend ist und ihr Freiräume gewährt. Er genießt offensichtlich diese Situation, aber hat Esi wirklich erreicht, was sie sich von einer Beziehung erträumte? Die sich emanzipierende Großstädterin steht plötzlich einer ganzen Reihe von Problemen gegenüber, für die auch Frauen andernorts keine einfachen Lösungen parat haben.

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