No Sweetness Here | Critical Overview

Aidoo is best known for her stories, which combine both Western literary and African oral storytelling traditions in exploring themes of feminism and colonialism pertinent to the modern African woman. Aidoo's first two publications were the stage plays The Dilemma of the Ghost (1965) and Anowa (1970). Her third publication was the short story collection No Sweetness Here (1970). Aidoo's first novel, Our Sister Killjoy, was published in 1977. Her second novel, Changes: A Love Story, was published in 1991. Aidoo has also published collections of stories...

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