Her narrative style does not conform to the standards of the traditional novel in that she mixes genres throughout the course of her work as a way of defying Western conventions in storytelling. She reverses the colonial travel narrative and criticizes colonization and its lasting impacts on Africa, the “artificiality” of life and the “coldness” of existence in the West, and Western advancement and technology. Through the character of Sissie, Aidoo challenges Western metaphysics and epistemology on which colonization and its notions of Otherness are grounded. She subverts the discourse of Orientalism, which “constructs and dominates Orientals in the process of knowing them”.
In Our Sister Killjoy, the Ghanaian writer, Ama Ata Aidoo, domesticates the novel as a strategy for decolonization by re-presenting the “story of Africa”: employing a narrative style and engaging with subject matter that asserts the difference of Africa and Africans from Europeans.
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