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“Still It Makes Me Laugh, No Time to Die”: A Response

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 October 2020

Ato Quayson
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It is of inestimable value to see one's work through the eyes of others. the book that is written is not the one that is read, especially when the readings, like those by the contributors to this cluster, come from different disciplinary perspectives. Whether it is Carina Ray's interpretation of a transnational African cosmopolitanism, Jesse Weaver Shipley's rhythmic repetitions as if of a jazz symphony, Adélékè Adéeko's rememory of other African cities, Anjali Prabhu's detection of autobiographical evasions, Alissa Trotz's invocation of South-South dialogue, or the urban analogs to Accra that Paul Lemos Horta sees in the 1001 Nights, for me each reading of Oxford Street, Accra has been an epiphany.

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Theories and Methodologies
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PMLA , Volume 131 , Issue 2 , March 2016 , pp. 528 - 539
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Copyright © Modern Language Association of America, 2016

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