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In search of a post-transatlantic slave trade dwelling and conviviality: rethinking Ghana’s ‘Year of Return’ with Ama Ata Aidoo’s The Dilemma of a Ghost (1965) by Rogers Asempasah; Samuel Ato Bentum is a Social Sciences article available to read on EtoBox.

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This paper discusses the ways in which Ama Ata Aidoo's The Dilemma of a Ghost (1965) can help us rethink Ghana's annual 'Year of Return' celebrations. Drawing on hooks' notion of 'homeplace', Ahmed's theorization of 'strange encounter,' and Sharpe's rumination on Black being 'in the wake' or afterlife of slavery, this paper reflects on how Aidoo's The Dilemma of a Ghost can help us rethink the 'Year of Return' project in terms of dwelling. The paper argues that Aidoo's play proffers a pedagogy of intercultural communication and a radical deconstruction of home and kinship. By noting Aidoo's emphasis on intercultural communication, home, and dwelling, the paper demonstrates how the 'Year of Return' can be conceptually enriched and pragmatically organized in ways that seriously consider Aidoo's ethic of dwelling. The paper is, therefore, a corrective to the overemphasis in the 'Year of Return' celebrations on trade, capital, and investment. Finally, the paper sheds light on the relationship between literature and society.

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Author

Rogers Asempasah; Samuel Ato Bentum

Publisher

Informa UK Limited

Published

2023

Language

EN

Field

Social Sciences