Identity meets nationality: voices from the humanities. / Helen Lauer
Material type: TextPublisher: Legon-Accra: Sub-Saharan, 2011Description: xiv, 297p.: 23cmISBN: 9789988647964LOC 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 Law Library | WISCONSIN INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, GHANA - MAIN LIBRARY | CB197.I34 (Browse shelf) | 1 | Available | 432/13 |
Includes references.
Contents: 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 i 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 challenges 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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