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identité Aidoo Darko Ghana Afrique Europe aliénation racisme manichéisme conscience montagne racialeSujets proches
Legends and stories Novels Stories Celestial horizon Apparent horizon Real horizon Sensible horizon Race prejudice Racial bias Race bias Bias, Racial Pinnacles Orology Ridges, Mountain Ranges, Mountain Mountain ridges Peaks Mountain ranges Mounts (Mountains) Mountain peaks Summits (Mountains) Hills Orography Republic of Ghana Colony of the Gold Coast Gold Coast Prejuicio racial Traversée Parcours Promenade Xénophobie Racisme Kawai Away Kawaï Horizon réel Horizon céleste Horizon sensible Horizon apparent Races humaines Race humaine Genre romanesque Fiction (littérature) Littérature romanesque Récits Romans Haine raciale Religion manichéenne Église manichéenne Manichéens Manichéisme (religion) Haute montagne Orographie Chaînes de montagnes Monts Collines Massifs montagneux Régions montagneuses Montagne Sierras Pics (montagnes) Sommets (montagnes) Conscience (psychologie) Conscience (philosophie) image-représentation République du Ghana Côte-de-l'Or (1821-1957)Citer ce document
Marie-Jeanne Gauffre, « La « Montagne raciale » : et après ? Parcours identitaires dans deux romans ghanéens contemporains », Anglophonia Caliban/Sigma, ID : 10.4000/caliban.1311
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Afro-American poet Langston’s Hughes’s challenge to the "Negro artist" in 1926—to run away from "the race towards whiteness" and climb the "racial mountain" in order to "discover himself and his people" reverberated throughout the colonial and later postcolonial world. Echoes of his plea have long been found in West African literary works concerned with restoring a positive image of the black self, but other "mountains" to be conquered have more recently come into view, especially in women’s writings. Two Ghanaian novels, Our Sister Killjoy or Reflections from a Black-Eyed Squint (1977), by Ama Ata Aidoo, and Beyond the Horizon (1995), by Amma Darko, illustrate some transformations of the issue raised by Hughes