The Disparity between Cultures on Going Back Home in The Dilemma of a Ghost by Ama Ata Aidoo

El Sherif, Howayda Hassan Ali; Kelesh, Shahira Fikry (Advisor), Wahsh, Mona Anwar (Advisor)

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The Disparity between Cultures on Going Back Home in The Dilemma of a Ghost by Ama Ata Aidoo

Authors:

El Sherif, Howayda Hassan Ali | Kelesh, Shahira Fikry (Advisor), Wahsh, Mona Anwar (Advisor)

Publisher:

جامعة عين شمس - كلية البنات للآداب والعلوم والتربية

Journal:

مجلة البحث العلمي في الآداب 2015 Vol.16 Issue 3, pp.261-278

Document Type:

Article

Publication Date:

1/2015

Document Language:

English

Document ID (Org No.):

2001234206

pISSN:

2356-8321

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Abstract:

 تباين الحضارات عند العودة للوطن في "محنة الشبح" لأما أتا أيدو يناقش هذا البحث التصادم الذي يحدث عند عودة الأفرو أمريكيين إلى أفريقيا. يكشف هذا التصادم عن مدى التباعد العرقي والحضاري بين كل من الأفارقة الأمريكيين والأفارقة كنتيجة لتاريخ العبودية والاستعمار. يتناول البحث هذه الفكرة من خلال مسرحية "محنة الشبح" لاما تتا ايدو والتي ترسم من خلالها شخصية إيو لالي روش الأفروأمريكي التي تقرر الزواج من الغاني أتو ياوسون والعودة معه لغانا. بدلا من أن يتم الترحيب بها من قبل إخوانها الأفارقة تجد إيولالي نفسها مرفوضة عرقيا وحضاريا لكونها من سلالة العبيد ولأنها أمريكية الحضارة. وجود إيولالي في هذا الموقف الغريب يدفعها لتطبيق المنظور الأمريكي العنصري عليهم. لهذا محنة ايولالي تمثل الأفارقة الأمريكيين بوجه عام والتصادم المتكرر داخلهم ما بين جذورهم الأفريقية والحضارة الأمريكية المكتسبة.
                  The Disparity between Cultures on Going Back Home in The Dilemma of a Ghost by Ama Ata Aidoo The paper discusses the collision which occurs when African Americans return to Africa. Such collision reveals the racial and cultural estrangement between African Americans and Africans as a result of slavery and colonialism. This idea is traced through Aidoo's The Dilemma of a Ghost (1965) which portrays an African American woman, Eulalie Rush who marries the Ghanaian Ato Yawson and agrees to return with him to Ghana. Rather than being welcomed by her African brothers, Eulalie finds herself racially and culturally rejected for being the descendant of slaves and an American respectively. Being in this odd situation, she starts to apply the same American racist perspective regarding Africans. Eulalie's dilemma therefore represents African Americans in general and the continuous collision between their African roots and the African American acquired perspectives. African Americans and Africans share the same racial roots which were the main reason behind their oppression either through slavery or colonialism. Both suffered from the same black curse that affected them physically and psychologically. But the longer they were separated, the more they were estranged from each other. Through time, the members of each group began to develop their own racial consciousness which was crystallized according to the cultural and social context they were placed in. Despite some attempts of reunion, unmistakable elements of division were there. This was clear in their different cultural practices, traditions, customs, and mostly in their sense of belonging, all of which the mutual skin color could not resolve. The Dilemma of a Ghost (1965) by Ama Ata Aidoo (1942- ) exposes the encounter between Africans and African Americans who belong to the same origin. These cultural encounters reveal how African Americans in Africa were viewed by Africans as intruders whether as inferior slaves or superior colonizers. As a result of this African suspicion, African Americans underestimate their African brothers in spite of their common origin. This idea is reflected through the experience of the African American Eulalie Rush who decides to marry an African man, Ato Yawson and lives with him in Ghana.

Article Details

The Disparity between Cultures on Going Back Home in The Dilemma of a Ghost by Ama Ata Aidoo

Authors:

El Sherif, Howayda Hassan Ali | Kelesh, Shahira Fikry (Advisor), Wahsh, Mona Anwar (Advisor)

Publisher:

جامعة عين شمس - كلية البنات للآداب والعلوم والتربية

Journal:

مجلة البحث العلمي في الآداب 2015 Vol.16 Issue 3, pp.261-278

Document Type:

Article

Publication Date:

1/2015

Document Language:

English

Document ID (Org No.):

2001234206

pISSN:

2356-8321

الأفارقة

الأفارقة

الأفارقة الأمريكيين

الثقافات

Issues

Article Details

The Disparity between Cultures on Going Back Home in The Dilemma of a Ghost by Ama Ata Aidoo

Authors: El Sherif, Howayda Hassan Ali | Kelesh, Shahira Fikry (Advisor), Wahsh, Mona Anwar (Advisor)

Publisher: جامعة عين شمس - كلية البنات للآداب والعلوم والتربية

Journal: مجلة البحث العلمي في الآداب 2015 Vol.16 Issue 3, pp.261-278

Document Type: Article

Publication Date: 1/2015

Document Language: English

Document ID (Org No.): 2001234206

pISSN: 2356-8321

الأفارقة

الأفارقة

الأفارقة الأمريكيين

الثقافات

Issues

Authors:

El Sherif, Howayda Hassan Ali | Kelesh, Shahira Fikry (Advisor), Wahsh, Mona Anwar (Advisor)

Publisher:

جامعة عين شمس - كلية البنات للآداب والعلوم والتربية

Journal:

مجلة البحث العلمي في الآداب 2015 Vol.16 Issue 3, pp.261-278

Document Type:

Article

Publication Date:

1/2015

Document Language:

English

Document ID (Org No.):

2001234206

pISSN:

2356-8321