![• 4. Biography
• Ama Ata Aidoo, in full Christina Ama Ata Aidoo (bornMarch 23, 1942,
Abeadzi Kyiakor, near Saltpond, Gold Coast [now Ghana]) Ghanaian
writer whose work, written in English, emphasized the paradoxical
position of the modern African woman. Aidoo began to write seriously
while an honours student at the University of Ghana (B.A., 1964). She
won early recognition with a problem play, The Dilemma of a
Ghost(1965), in which a Ghanaian student returning home brings his
African-American wife into the traditional culture and the extended
family that he now finds restrictive. Their dilemma reflects Aidoo’s
characteristic concern with the “been-to” (African educated abroad),
voiced again in her semiautobiographical experimental first novel, Our
Sister Killjoy; or, Reflections from a Black-Eyed Squint (1966). Aidoo
herself won a fellowship to Stanford University in California, returned to
teach at Cape Coast, Ghana, and subsequently accepted various visiting
professorships in the United States and Kenya.
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Character and Feminism analysis in the “The Girl Who Can – Ama Ata Aidoo”
- 1. Character and Feminism analysis in the “The Girl Who Can – Ama Ata Aidoo” By Yolanda Ayu Belia 13020114120003
- 2. Abstract • This paper, the writer tries to analyze a prose, entitled “The Girl Who Can “ written by – Ama Ata Aidoo. The purpose of this paper is to analyze about character and feminism. This analysis include the intrinsic and extrinsic elements. This research uses tekstual, hypertekstual, and cybertekstual. And also the writer uses close reading methods. • Keyword : Feminism, The Girl Who Can, Intrinsic, Extrinsic, Ama Ata Aidoo.
- 3. 1. Introduction The Girl Who Can is a short story about female characters, women's needs and issues. The writer, Ama Ata Aidoo also analyze about African women's struggle to find their rightful place in society.
- 4. 2. Methodology a. To analyze the character in The Girl Who Can by Ama Ata Aidoo b. To analyze about feminism in The Girl Who Can by Ama Ata Aidoo. 3. Research Object Research objective are the result sought by the researcher at the end of the research process, i.e. what the reseacher will be able to achieve at the end of the research study.
- 5. • 4. Biography • Ama Ata Aidoo, in full Christina Ama Ata Aidoo (bornMarch 23, 1942, Abeadzi Kyiakor, near Saltpond, Gold Coast [now Ghana]) Ghanaian writer whose work, written in English, emphasized the paradoxical position of the modern African woman. Aidoo began to write seriously while an honours student at the University of Ghana (B.A., 1964). She won early recognition with a problem play, The Dilemma of a Ghost(1965), in which a Ghanaian student returning home brings his African-American wife into the traditional culture and the extended family that he now finds restrictive. Their dilemma reflects Aidoo’s characteristic concern with the “been-to” (African educated abroad), voiced again in her semiautobiographical experimental first novel, Our Sister Killjoy; or, Reflections from a Black-Eyed Squint (1966). Aidoo herself won a fellowship to Stanford University in California, returned to teach at Cape Coast, Ghana, and subsequently accepted various visiting professorships in the United States and Kenya. •
- 6. 5. Discussion Discussion of the elements here is focussed on the characteristic (intrinsic elements) and Feminism (extrinsic elements). a. Characteristic · I (Adjoa) She is a girl that born in Hasodzi, Ghana. She life with her mother (Maami) and her grandma (Nana). When she was born, she have a problem with her legs. Maami and Nana always disputing and debating about her legs everyday. Adjoa is a cheerful girl. She never give up whenever she has a problem with her legs.
- 7. • Nana The characters of Nana is ignorant, a little offened, and also always complain and disputing about Adjoa’s legs without looking what the Adjoa’s feeling. She is an egoistic girl. • Maami She was someone who still patient when Nana always disputing and debating about daughters’s legs. She always give motivation for Adjoa.
- 8. • b. Feminism • Ama Ata Aidoo's collection of short stories: The Girl Who Can is a creative work that could be justifiably described as woman- centred in a progressive sense. In it she foregrounds female characters, women's needs and issues. The collection seems to have fulfilled Molara Ogundipe-Leslie's requirements for the African female writer to be committed ‘as a writer, as a woman and as a Third World person’ (1994). Aidoo herself has added commitment as an African nationalist to the list (ibid). A keen analysis of the stories reveals yet another criterion which includes the common concerns basic to all women’s movements worldwide: understanding patriarchal ideology and power, rejecting socially constructed dichotomies and dualism, demonstrating solidarity with women, and affirming women’s agency (Antrobus 2004).
- 9. 6. Conclusion In the end of this story, the problems about Adjoa’s legs is resolved. She has been win the competition in her school. Never mind that the girl who have a problem with her legs can win the cup for the best all-round junior athlete. But Adjoa prove it. She was very enthusiastic. And finally, Nana apologized and realized about her ridicule towards Adjoa.