Broadening the Horizon: Critical Introductions to Amma Darko

		ISBN: 978-0-9547023-8-0 $22.00
	2007/150 pages Distributed for Ayebia Clarke Publishing

Amma Darko is revealed in this important collection as a novelist whose work reflects both compelling story-telling talent and unflinching criticism of what Ghana has become as its people are increasingly enmeshed in the network of global capitalism.

The authors critically situate Darko's work within the context of postindependence Ghanaian and other African writers such as Ayi Kwei Armah, Ama Ata Aidoo, Mariama Bâ, and Florence Nwapa.

• Introduction: Beyond the Comfort Zone—V.O. Odamtten.
• Amma Darko: Writing Her Way—L.A. Zak.
• Victims and/or Victimisers? Women's De(Con)structive Power in The Housemaid—M. Bungaro.
• Licit Desires, Alien Bodies and the Economics of Invisibility in Amma Darko's Beyond the Horizon and Stephen Frears' Dirty Pretty Things—S.P. O'Connell and V.O. Odamtten.
• Ngambika and Grassroots Fiction: Amma Darko's The Housemaid and Faceless—M.E. Higgins.
• Amma Darko's The Housemaid and the Gendering of Novel and Nation—C. Garritano.
• Exploitation, Negligence and Violence: Gendered Interrelationships in Amma Darko's Novels—G. Angsotinge, K. Dako, A. Denkabe, and H. Yitah.
• Amma Darko's Beyond the Horizon: Vending the Dream and Other Traumas for the Obedient Daughter—V.O. Odamtten.
• Sage, Muse, Crone: The Grandmother in Amma Darko's Novels—N.B. Horne.
• Breaking the Shell: Our Customs, Our Traditions and the Pan-African Dream; Or, Rethinking Pan-Africanism—A. Darko.