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The legacy of Efua Sutherland : Pan-African cultural activism / editors, Anne V. Adams and Esi Sutherland-Addy.

Title
The legacy of Efua Sutherland : Pan-African cultural activism / editors, Anne V. Adams and Esi Sutherland-Addy.
Publication
Banbury, UK : Ayebia Clarke ; Boulder, CO : Distributed by Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2007.

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Additional Authors
  • Adams, Anne V.
  • Sutherland-Addy, Esi.
Description
xv, 271 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
Summary
Sutherland was a Ghana-born educator, publisher, artist, activist, director, dramatist and writer.
Subject
  • Literature and society > Ghana
  • Sutherland, Efua Theodora Morgue, 1924-1996 > Criticism and interpretation
Genre/Form
  • Aufsatzsammlung.
  • Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 242-256) and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
  • Preface / Amowi Sutherland Phillips -- Introduction / Anne V. Adams and Esi Sutherland-Addy -- pt. 1. Efua Sutherland's artistic space -- The attainment of discovery: Efua Sutherland and the evolution of modern African drama / Ola Rotimi -- When Anansegoro begins to grow: reading Efua Sutherland three decades on / Biodun Jeyifo -- Kodzidan Mboguw: supplanted acts, displaced narratives, and the social logic of a trickster in the 'house of stories' / David Donkor -- The entrance of Ghanaian women into popular entertainment / John Collins -- Empowerment for gender equality through theatre: the case of Tuseme / Penina Mlama -- Efua Theodora Sutherland: Visionary pioneer of Ghanaian children's literature / Mabel Komasi -- Creating for and with children: Efua Sutherland's children's plays / Esi Sutherland-Addy --^
  • Meshack Asare: transforming folklore into children's literature / Jürgen Martini --Revis(it)ing ritual: The challenge to the virility of tradition in works by Efua Sutherland and 'fellow' African women writers / Anne V. Adams -- Dramatising the diaspora's return: Tess Onwueme's The missing face and Ama ata Aidoo's The dilemma of a ghost / Sandra Richards -- Hesitant homecomings in Hansberry's and Aidoo's first plays / John Lemly -- Introducing Daughters of Africa / Margaret Busby -- Selected bibliography on Efua Sutherland / James Gibbs -- pt. 2. Efua Sutherland and cultural activism -- 'Here, then, is Efua': Sutherland and the drama studio / Robert July -- Kodzidan / Sandy Arkhurst -- The Ghana national commission on children / Comfort Caulley Hanson -- Architecture: spatial deployment for community experience (encounter with Efua T. Sutherland) / H.N.A. Wellington --^
  • Pan-African partnership on children's literature: reminiscences of a diaspora educator / Vivian Windley --'There's a lot of strength in our people': Efua Sutherland's last interview / Femi Osofisan -- pt. 3. Reminiscences and tributes -- 'Tommy' (Efua Sutherland) / Michael McMullan -- My mentor / Florence Laast -- Efua Theodora Sutherland: a personal reflection / William Branch -- Reaching out to your Africa: obituary of Efua Sutherland / Margaret Busby -- Tribute to a sister / Maya Angelou -- Mother courage: a tribute to auntie Efua from all her children in the arts / Kofi Anyidoho -- The pathfinder (for auntie Efua at Araba Mansa) / Margaret Busby -- Spirit of the red earth: remembering Efua / Margaret (Peggy) Watts -- An interrogation of an academic kind: an essay / Ama Ata Aidoo -- Appendix: Efua Theodora Sutherland: a life in brief -- Dr Efua Sutherland (a biographical sketch) / Kofi Anyidoho -- Chronology / Amowi Sutherland Phillips.
ISBN
  • 9780954702311 (pbk.)
  • 095470231X (pbk.)