Title: A Study on Cultural Memory in Anowa: A Ghanaian Drama

Abstract: The creation of Ghanaian playwright Ama Ata Aidoo has focused on the fierce conflicts between African culture and Western culture. Aidoo’s masterpiece Anowa shows audience the distortion and oblivion of Ghana’s traditional culture through the ups and downs of the Anowa protagonist after her farewell to her hometown. In response to the memory crisis endangering identity, Aidoo reconstructed the cultural memory based on the media such as place, symbols and body, so as to awaken people’s sense of resistance, help them complete the cultural self-rescue, and finally achieve the cultural identity.

Keywords: Anowa, Ama Ata Aidoo, cultural memory, reconstruction, identity

Authors: Jian Huang, Professor, School of Foreign Studies, Changsha University of Science and Technology, Changsha, Hunan, China; Xiangling Yu, School of Foreign Studies, Changsha University of Science and Technology, Changsha, Hunan, China.