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Christian Awuyah

African LiteratureWorld LiteratureComparative LiteratureGhanaian Literature

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Approaches to Select Texts in World Literature. Kendall/Hunt August 2011. Co-edited and co-authored with Geetha Ramanathan. "Faceless: Amma Darko's Face for the Faceless." Making Connections: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Cultural Diversity 14.1 (Spring 2013): 28-39. "The Tale and Teller: A Study of the Griot's Narrative Art in Djibril Tasmir Niane's Sundiata: An Epic of Old Mali." Weavers and Bards: Narrative and Literary Style in Contemporary African Literature and Orature. Ed. J.K.S. Makokha, Remmy Barasa, and Adeyemi Daramola. Saarbrücken: VDM Verlag Dr. Müller, 2010: 238-245. "The Roles of Print and Non-Print Media and Promotional Associations in the Development of Ghanaian Literature." Matatu: A Journal of African Culture and Society 21-22 (2000): 341-49. Reprinted in FonTonFrom: Contemporary Ghanaian Literature, Theater, and Film. Ed. Kofi Anyidoho and James Gibbs. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2000. "Ghanaian Literature." Encyclopedia of World Literature in the 20th Century. Ed. Steve Serafin. New York: St. James Press, 1999: 239-241. "Nationalism and Pan Africanism in Ghanaian Writing: The Examples of Ottobah Cugoano, Joseph E. Casely-Hayford, and Ayi Kwei Armah." Challenging Hierarchies: Issues and Themes in Colonial and Post-Colonial African Literature. Ed. Leonard Podis and Yakuba Saaka. New York: Peter Lang, 1998. 203-230. Entries on various Ghanaian authors and culture: "Ghana: An Overview"
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