{"product_id":"after-the-ceremonies-9780803296947","title":"After the Ceremonies","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAma Ata Aidoo is one of the best-known African writers today. Spanning three decades of work, the poems in this collection address themes of colonialism, independence, motherhood, and gender in intimate, personal ways alongside commentary on broader social issues.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eForeword by Helen Yitah    \u003cbr\u003e Part One: New and Uncollected Poems\u003cbr\u003e Prelude\u003cbr\u003e For My Mother in Her Mid-90s    \u003cbr\u003e I. Fires and Ashes\u003cbr\u003e Me Pilgrim    \u003cbr\u003e Heathrow Healing    \u003cbr\u003e As the Dust Begins to Settle II: An Afterword, Twenty Years On    \u003cbr\u003e To a Silk Shirt in the Sun    \u003cbr\u003e After the Ceremonies    \u003cbr\u003e II. Grieving for the Living\u003cbr\u003e An Interrogation of an Academic Kind: An Essay    \u003cbr\u003e For Bessie Head    \u003cbr\u003e A Taking Care of Our Bourgeois Palates II—    \u003cbr\u003e Our Very Dear Juliana    \u003cbr\u003e Juliana (The Translation)    \u003cbr\u003e More Bad News: In Memoriam Fred E. K. Gbedemah    \u003cbr\u003e Awoonor? Ebei Oo!     \u003cbr\u003e Awoonor, Hmmm . . . (The Translation)    \u003cbr\u003e These Days (III): A Letter to Flora Nwapa    \u003cbr\u003e Ode to Qunu    \u003cbr\u003e III. The National Corruption Index and Other Poems\u003cbr\u003e The National Corruption Index    \u003cbr\u003e I. Really Funny Numbers    \u003cbr\u003e II. Just This Morning    \u003cbr\u003e III. More Really Funny Numbers    \u003cbr\u003e IV. About Single Trees    \u003cbr\u003e IV. All of It    \u003cbr\u003e On Reading Jackie Kay    \u003cbr\u003e Why on Earth Do I Continue to Listen to the BBC?!     \u003cbr\u003e Mourning Ricci    \u003cbr\u003e IV. Ghana: Where the Bead Speaks\u003cbr\u003e Ghana: Where the Bead Speaks    \u003cbr\u003e Part Two: Selections from An Angry Letter in January\u003cbr\u003e I: As Always, a Painful Declaration of Independence\u003cbr\u003e As Always, a Painful Declaration of Independence    \u003cbr\u003e II: Images of Africa at Century’s End\u003cbr\u003e Images of Africa at Century’s End    \u003cbr\u003e In Memoriam: The Ghana Drama Studio    \u003cbr\u003e A Question from the Expatriate Community    \u003cbr\u003e An Angry Letter in January    \u003cbr\u003e Speaking of Hurricanes    \u003cbr\u003e These Days: I    \u003cbr\u003e Three Poems for Chinua Achebe    \u003cbr\u003e 1. A Modern African Story    \u003cbr\u003e 2. Questions    \u003cbr\u003e 3. New in Africa: I    \u003cbr\u003e Loving the Black Angel    \u003cbr\u003e No Grief No Joy    \u003cbr\u003e An Insider’s View    \u003cbr\u003e Homesickness    \u003cbr\u003e Two Letters    \u003cbr\u003e 1. Family    \u003cbr\u003e 2. After an Argument    \u003cbr\u003e III: Women’s Conferences and Other Poems\u003cbr\u003e Just One More Job for Mama    \u003cbr\u003e Whom Do We Thank for Women’s Conferences?     \u003cbr\u003e A Young Woman’s Voice Doesn’t Break. It Gets Firmer    \u003cbr\u003e Comparisons II: We Women, Still!     \u003cbr\u003e These Days: II    \u003cbr\u003e A Path in the Sky    \u003cbr\u003e A Birthday Gift    \u003cbr\u003e A Postcard from My Vacation    \u003cbr\u003e A Revelation    \u003cbr\u003e Part Three: Selections from Someone Talking to Sometime\u003cbr\u003e I: Of Love and Commitment\u003cbr\u003e Crisis    \u003cbr\u003e Of Love and Commitment    \u003cbr\u003e Greetings from London    \u003cbr\u003e Three Poems for Atta Britwum     \u003cbr\u003e 1. Ghana Funerals    \u003cbr\u003e 2. Nation Building    \u003cbr\u003e 3. A Salute to African Universities    \u003cbr\u003e For Steve Hymer—A Propos 1966    \u003cbr\u003e Two for Kojo    \u003cbr\u003e 1. As the Dust Begins to Settle—A Long Story II    \u003cbr\u003e 2. Regrets    \u003cbr\u003e II: New Orleans: Mid-1970s\u003cbr\u003e Carolyn    \u003cbr\u003e For a Zulu in the Bayous    \u003cbr\u003e Lorisnrudi    \u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments—with an Apology to Ronald    \u003cbr\u003e III: Routine Drugs\u003cbr\u003e Routine Drugs I—for Eldred Jones    \u003cbr\u003e Routine Drugs II    \u003cbr\u003e Gynae One    \u003cbr\u003e Comparisons—for Rose    \u003cbr\u003e Wondering about Him Who Said No to the Glare of the Open Day    \u003cbr\u003e IV: Reply to Fontamara\u003cbr\u003e Reply to Fontamara I    \u003cbr\u003e Reply to Fontamara II    \u003cbr\u003e Now That the Weatherman Has Gone Crazy . . .    \u003cbr\u003e Heavy Traffic    \u003cbr\u003e From the Only Speech That Was Not Delivered at the Rally    \u003cbr\u003e V: Legacies\u003cbr\u003e The Visible World    \u003cbr\u003e Of Gifts and References    \u003cbr\u003e For Kinna II    \u003cbr\u003e Ekunekun    \u003cbr\u003e Totems        \u003cbr\u003e VI: Kwadwom from a Stillborn Creole Kingdom\u003cbr\u003e Egyeifi’s Farewell    \u003cbr\u003e Nourishment    \u003cbr\u003e Woaeenn I    \u003cbr\u003e VII: Tomorrow’s Song\u003cbr\u003e Wanted Urgently for Immediate Employment    \u003cbr\u003e Source Acknowledgments    \u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"University of Nebraska Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405302505815,"sku":"9780803296947","price":999.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780803296947.jpg?v=1730489636","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/after-the-ceremonies-9780803296947","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}