This paper compares and juxtaposes "Marita" with Ama Ata Aidoo’s "Changes" (1991), in order to bring to the fore both the distance separating them with regards to various perspectives and the shared confrontational stance towards imposed Western models on the marriage issue.

Conjuring the Conjugal: The Disruption of Some Western Mores in Two Ghanaian Novels

DEANDREA, Pietro
2004-01-01

Abstract

This paper compares and juxtaposes "Marita" with Ama Ata Aidoo’s "Changes" (1991), in order to bring to the fore both the distance separating them with regards to various perspectives and the shared confrontational stance towards imposed Western models on the marriage issue.
2004
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Ghana; colonialism; feminism; Newell; Aidoo; marriage; polygamy
P. DEANDREA
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