Fictionalized diasporas give insight into the socio-cultural underpinnings of the African Diaspora. These literary formations demonstrate localized processes of constructing diasporic and collective identity. African playwright Ama Ata Aidoo demonstrates this in The Dilemma of a Ghost. This article examines how Aidoo’s oeuvre intersects diasporic identity, imaginings of the African Diaspora reversal, and diasporic dimensions of displacement that collude with localized strategies of establishing belonging. It investigates the links between tropes of border-crossing, autochthony, and the cultural politics of belonging in the play. It offers a reverse look at diaspora experience, specifically the cultural manifestations of diasporic encounters which are rooted in African cultural politics and beliefs about the autochthonous. The play brings to the stage diasporic responses that are more culturally inspired rather than economically or politically motivated.

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在 Ama Ata Aidoo 的《幽灵的困境》中编写侨民身份

虚构的侨民可以深入了解非洲侨民的社会文化基础。这些文学形式展示了构建侨民身份和集体身份的本地化过程。非洲剧作家 Ama Ata Aidoo 在 The Dilemma of a Ghost 中证明了这一点。本文考察了 Aidoo 的作品如何与侨民身份、非洲侨民逆转的想象以及与建立归属感的本地化策略相勾结的侨民流离失所维度相交。它调查了跨界、本土和归属于该剧的文化政治之间的联系。它提供了对侨民体验的反向观察，特别是植根于非洲文化政治和关于本土的信仰的侨民遭遇的文化表现。