Deconstructing the terrible gift of postcolonial African lives: An intertextual reading of Martin Egblewogbe’s Mr. Happy and the Hammer of God & Other Stories.

This paper situates Martin Egblewogbe’s short story collection Mr. Happy and the Hammer of God & Other Stories (2008) within intertextual discourses as they relate to the tri-generational canon of Ghanaian, and by extension, African literature. It argues against the easy temptation of reading t...

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Main Author: Prince Kwame Adika
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Ghana 2021-08-01
Series:Legon Journal of the Humanities
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Online Access:https://www.ajol.info/index.php/ljh/article/view/213564