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VARIATIONS ON A THEME: A Round-Up of Advice, from Sam Abell to William Butler Yeats

Career Authors
Your theme is what your story is really about. In this Career Authors Round-Up, you'll discover what these terrific writers past and present have to say about theme.
VARIATIONS ON A THEME: A Round-Up of Advice, from Sam Abell to William Butler Yeats Paula Munier…
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VARIATIONS ON A THEME: A Round-Up of Advice, from Sam Abell to William Butler Yeats • Career Authors

Your theme is what your story is really about. In this Career Authors Round-Up, you'll discover what these terrific writers past and present have to say about theme.

Career Authors
Ròt-Bò-KrikFeb 17

Au menu de Ròt-Bò-Krik ce printemps : un incontournable de la littérature féministe africaine et une relecture radicale de la longue décennie du Black Power.

C’est une grande joie pour nous d'accueillir Ama Ata Aidoo dans notre catalogue et de publier le premier livre en français de notre camarade Grégory Pierrot !

En librairie le 17 avril.

@hobodiffusion @GuillaumeCingal #blackarts #blackpower #oursisterkilljoy #killjoyfeminism #amaataaidoo

El_rincon_de_kerenJun 6, 2024

Buenos días por la mañana 😘
¡Feliz jornada! ☺️

#frases #AmaAtaAidoo

Ian HuntSep 30, 2023

September reading -- mostly things on the shelf I had not actually read, and one visit to the the library. I will read more Ayi Kwei Armah.
#AmaAtaAidoo, The Girl Who Can, 1997 (stories reissued in African Writers Series 2002) which led to
#AyiKweiArmah, The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born, 1968
#PenelopeFitzgerald, The Beginning of Spring, 1988
#AndréBreton, Nadja, 1928, and Mad Love, 1937
#DarrylPinckney, High Cotton, 1992
#JennyErpenbeck, The End of Days, 2012

#books #Literature

Ian HuntAug 13, 2023
Made a start on reading Ama Ata Aidoo -- Our Sister Killjoy, 1977. It's a short, spirited, witty and wonderful book. Here is Sara Ahmed's love letter to Aidoo, (written after her death this year) and to this book in particular #African #Literature #books #AmaAtaAidoo https://feministkilljoys.com/2023/06/05/a-joyous-killjoy-debt-to-ama-ata-aidoo/
A Joyous Killjoy Debt: To Ama Ata Aidoo

I am writing this post to express my gratitude to Ama Ata Aidoo. Ama Ata Aidoo died on May 31, 2023. Gratitude can be grief. I am deeply indebted to Ama Ata Aidoo for how she repurposed the figure …

feministkilljoys
Show threadIan HuntJun 4, 2023
Here's the Guardian obituary of #AmaAtaAidoo https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/jun/02/author-ama-ata-aidoo-feminists-everywhere-dies-aged-81-ghana
Author Ama Ata Aidoo, ‘an inspiration to feminists everywhere’, dies aged 81

The Ghanaian playwright and novelist, who also served as her country’s education minister, focused on the modern African woman

The Guardian
Claire GrauerJun 1, 2023
Ama Ata Aidoo died this week - an amazing #author, #feminist, #human being, highly recommend her first novel "Our Sister Killjoy" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-65765581 #aidoo #amaataaidoo #oursisterkilljoy
Ama Ata Aidoo: Ghana's famous author and feminist dies

Ama Ata Aidoo challenged Western perceptions of African women through her award-winning works.

BBC News
quoteallthethings #Yang2020 🐉Mar 7, 2019
Africa is not fulfilling people's hopes and aspirations. African leader... #AmaAtaAidoo #quote https://openquotes.github.io/authors/ama-ata-aidoo-quotes/#679460a5
Ama Ata Aidoo Quotes -- OpenQuotes

Explore the best Ama Ata Aidoo quotes here at OpenQuotes. Quotations, aphorisms and citations by Ama Ata Aidoo