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010 _a 2011342830
020 _a9789988647964
020 _a9988647964
035 _a(OCoLC)ocn729343956
035 _a(OCoLC)729343956
035 _a(NNC)8928790
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042 _alcode
050 1 4 _aCB197
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245 0 0 _aIdentity meets nationality :Voices from the humanities. /
_bvoices from the humanities
_cedited by Helen Lauer, Nana Aba Appiah Amfo, Jemima Asabea Anderson.
260 _aAccra, Ghana :
_bSub-Saharan Publishers,
_cc2011.
300 _axiv, 297 p.:
_bill. (some col.), maps.;
_c24 cm.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references.
505 _aContents: 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.
650 0 _aNational characteristics.
650 0 _aHumanities.
700 1 _aLauer, Helen.
700 1 _aAmfo, Nana Aba Appiah.
700 1 _aAnderson, Jemima Asabea.
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