Imoinda: Criticism and Response
Volume 3 No 3 2010
A Special Postgraduate Issue of New Mango Season
Guest Editors
Marl'ene Edwin, Goldsmiths, University of London
Natasha Bonnelame, Goldsmiths, University of London
Tendai Marima, Goldsmiths, University of London
Introduction
WOW EDITORIAL TEAM
Interview
Encountering Imoinda: An Interview with Viv Golding
NATASHA BONNELAME
Writers’ Voices
Poetry:
‘Imajiné’ by IONE
‘She’ by JAS
Critics Voices
Joan Anim-Addo’s libretto Imoinda: Revisiting a Colonial Critique and Considering Media
FABIó BATISTA DOS SANTOS
To Keep or not to Keep? Autonomy, Abjection and Motherhood in Anim-Addo’s Imoinda: Or She Who Has Lost Her Name and Jeunet’s Alien Resurrection
SIMON BACON
From Restoration to Creolisation: Joan Anim-Addo’s Imoinda as 21st century Afromodernist Woman
NATASHA BONNELAME
‘What we Remember the Whip Can’t Undo’: Memory and H(er)story in Joan Anim-Addo’s Imoinda
MARL’ENE EDWIN
Talking through the ‘door of no return’: Ama Ata Aidoo’s Anowa and Joan Anim-Addo’s Imoinda
TENDAI MARIMA
Project Report: Words from Other Worlds: Critical Perspectives on Imoinda
Reviews
Project Review
LISA MARCHI
Book Review: Imoinda: Or She Who Will Lose Her Name by Joan Anim-Addo
JULIA LOCKHEART
Joan Anim-Addo's Imoinda: A Critical Bibliography