Ama Ata Aidoo | Criticism

This literature criticism consists of approximately 16 pages of analysis & critique of Ama Ata Aidoo.
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Ama Ata Aidoo | Criticism

This literature criticism consists of approximately 16 pages of analysis & critique of Ama Ata Aidoo.
This section contains 4,476 words
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SOURCE: MacKenzie, Clayton G. “The Discourse of Sweetness in Ama Ata Aidoo's No Sweetness Here.Studies in Short Fiction 32, no. 2 (spring 1995): 161-70.

In the following essay, MacKenzie examines Aidoo's generally optimistic portrayal of postcolonial African culture in No Sweetness Here, arguing that the collection employs “a narrative technique of closely juxtaposed binary oppositions that attest to glimmers of benignity in the midst of social decay.”

In “For Whom Things Did Not Change,” the second story in Ama Ata Aidoo's collection No Sweetness Here, a young man recounts the tale of a bad yam. In it he tells how Nanaa cuts a slice of a large yam; it is rotten. Then she cuts another slice, and another, and another. All are rotten. Finally, she gouges out the head of the yam. It is brown and soft. Rotten. The young man, Kobina, draws from the childhood parable a significance for...

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