Our Sister Killjoy Sources and ClassicNote Author

Owusu, Kofi. “Canons Under Siege: Blackness, Femaleness, and Ama Ata Aidoo’s Our Sister Killjoy.” Callaloo, vol. 13, no. 2, 1990, pp. 341–63.

Cooper, Brenda. “Chaiba the Algerian versus Our Sister Killjoy: The Case for a Materialist Black Aesthetic.” English in Africa, vol. 12, no. 2, 1985, pp. 21–51.

Elia, Nada. “‘To Be an African Working Woman’: Levels of Feminist Consciousness in Ama Ata Aidoo’s ‘Changes.’” Research in African Literatures, vol. 30, no. 2, 1999, pp. 136–47.

Gqola, Pumla Dineo. “Ufanele Uqavile: Blackwomen, Feminisms and Postcoloniality in Africa.” Agenda: Empowering Women for Gender Equity, no. 50, 2001, pp. 11–22.

Needham, Anuradha Dingwaney, and Ama Ata Aidoo. “An Interview with Ama Ata Aidoo.” The Massachusetts Review, vol. 36, no. 1, 1995, pp. 123–33.

George, Rosemary Marangoly, et al. “‘A New Tail to an Old Tale’: An Interview with Ama Ata Aidoo.” NOVEL: A Forum on Fiction, vol. 26, no. 3, 1993, pp. 297–308.

Hill-Lubin, Mildred A. “The Relationship of African-Americans and Africans : A Recurring Theme in the Works of Ata Aidoo.” Présence Africaine, no. 124, 1982, pp. 190–201.

Hayes, Jarrod. Queer Roots for the Diaspora: Ghosts in the Family Tree. University of Michigan Press, 2016.

Wilson-Tagoe, Nana. "Reading Towards a Theorization of African Women's Writing: African Women Writers Within Feminist Gynocriticism." Writing African Women: Gender, Popular Culture and Literature in West Africa, edited by Stephanie Newell, Bloomsbury Academic & Professional, 2017, pp. 11-28.

Opara, Chioma, "Narrative Techniques and the Politics of Gender: Ama Ata Aidoo's 'Our Sister Killjoy' and 'No Sweetness Here.'" Writing African Women: Gender, Popular Culture and Literature in West Africa, edited by Stephanie Newell, Bloomsbury Academic & Professional, 2017, pp. 137-146.

Quashie, Kevin Everod. Black Women, Identity, and Cultural Theory: (Un)Becoming the Subject. Rutgers University Press, 2004.

Khannous, Touria. African Pasts, Presents, and Futures: Generational Shifts in African Women's Literature, Film, and Internet Discourse. Blue Ridge Summit, Lexington Books/Fortress Academic, 2013.