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Ama Ata Aidoo: Critical Essay by Kofi Owusu

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SOURCE: Owusu, Kofi. “Canons under Siege: Blackness, Femaleness, and Ama Ata Aidoo's Our Sister Killjoy.Callaloo 13, no. 2 (spring 1990): 341-63.

In the following essay, Owusu considers the impact of racial and gender issues on Our Sister Killjoy, commenting that the novel “seems to defy easy categorization, and one soon gets the impression that it defines itself by this very fact.”

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