#182
Title: Our Sister Killjoy: Or, Reflections from a Black-eyed Squint
Author: Ama Ata Aidoo
Publisher: Longman
Year: 1977
Country: Ghana
134 pages
A surprisingly complex and nuanced account of the narrator's travels from Ghana to Europe and other destinations. Don't let editorial reviews fool you with their domesticated descriptions--this is a much better book than they would lead you to believe. It addresses not only colonialism and overt, individual acts of racism, but also ingrained racist perspectives that are obvious when one is their object yet inexplicable and invisible when one is not. The book is written in a pastiche of styles, with the interwoven poetry and prose sections being most effective; sadly, the "letter" that closes the volume is, while interesting in its content, tedious stylistically. Read with Michelle Cliff's No Telephone to Heaven and Ntozake Shange's For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf.
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