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