Identity meets nationality :Voices from the humanities. / voices from the humanities edited by Helen Lauer, Nana Aba Appiah Amfo, Jemima Asabea Anderson.
Material type: TextPublisher: Accra, Ghana : Sub-Saharan Publishers, c2011Description: xiv, 297 p.: ill. (some col.), maps.; 24 cmISBN: 9789988647964; 9988647964Subject(s): National characteristics | HumanitiesLOC classification: CB197 | .I34Item type | Current location | Home library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Books | WISCONSIN INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, GHANA - MAIN LIBRARY Reference | WISCONSIN INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, GHANA - MAIN LIBRARY | CB197 .I34 (Browse shelf) | 1 | Available | 7683/110/14 |
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BL80.2 .S615 The world's religions / | BL2465.A77 Religion and social change in West Africa: an introduction to the sociology of religion. / | BP10.J383K36 Inside the brotherhood./ | CB197 .I34 Identity meets nationality :Voices from the humanities. / voices from the humanities | CT2508.R68A3 Because of Kwadua. / | CT2508.R68 A3 Because of Kwadua. / | CT2508.R68 A32 Because of Kwadua. / |
Includes bibliographical references.
Contents: Introduction -- The Humanities and the idea of national identity -- Empiricalism: The Empirical character of an African philosophy -- Metaphors of death in akan -- Political nicknaming in Ghana: social representations of democracy achieved through conceptual blending -- "Do not rob us of ourselves": language and nationalism in colonial Ghana -- Language use in education in minority language areas: the case of Logba -- The Dilemma of identity for African American English: a case of African language influence? -- Constructing a national language as a vehicle for national identity -- Material culture and ethnic identity: the case of the Krobo, Ghana -- Negotiating pre- colonial history and future democracy: Kwasi Wiredu and his critics -- Identity crises: constructions of national identity in the poetry of equatorial Guinea -- 'No sweetness here' for 'our sister', La Noire? Gender empowerment in the short stories of sembene Ousmane and Ama Ata Aidoo -- Constructing national consciousness in Russian literature: some lessons for the African milieu -- Africa's renaissance and the challenge of culture: the failures of NEPAD -- The music of Ephraim Amu and Isaac Daniel Riverson: 'the known ' and 'the not known' Ghanaian composers -- The Performing arts: identity and the new social paradigm.
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