![]() ![]() Importance: This quote is an example of how Aidoo’s narrative voice works in Our Sister Killjoy by using surprising juxtapositions and turns of thought. ![]() The academic-pseudo-intellectual version is even more dangerous, who, in the face of reality that is more tangible than the massive walls of the slave forts standing along our beaches, still talks of universal truth, universal art, universal literature and the Gross National Product." It reflects her ability to impersonate the voice of the First World, which has indeed benefited in the postcolonial era. In terms of this debate, Ama Ata Aidoo has in Our Sister Killjoy, certainly sided with those who see the process of 'brain drain' as an obstacle to national development and has critiqued the hypocrisy of those Ghanaian intellectuals who have emigrated and justified their decision in nationalist terms, insisting. While Achebe’s observation that things are falling apart is earnest, Aidoo’s observation that “Things are working out” is sarcastic. Aidoo: The 'been-to' in Our Sister Killjoy Megan Behrent, Brown University '97. Importance: This quote, featured at the beginning of the novel, is a play on Chinua Achebe’s famously titled novel, Things Fall Apart, about the destructive impact of colonialism on an Igbo village in Nigeria. ![]() ![]() Things are working out…towards their dazzling conclusions…” ![]()
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