Examines the works of African writer Ama Ata Aidoo, assessing the evolution of her concerns as an artist and an activist from a perspective the author terms ""polylectic"" criticism. While challenging Western reading habits, Odamtten's approach corrects earlier misreadings of Aidoo's works.
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Vincent O. Odamtten, a poet and critic from Ghana, is associate professor and director of the Africana Studies Program at Hamilton College, Clinton, N.Y.  He has written on African, Caribbean, and African-American literature and culture and has contributed chapters on Ama Ata Aidoo and Efua T. Sutherland to Bio-Bibliography on Fifty African and Caribbean Women Writers.
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