Spiders of the Market: Ghanaian Trickster Performance in a Web of Neoliberalism

by David Afriyie Donkor

Book Overview

The Ghanaian trickster-spider, Ananse, is a deceptive figure full of comic delight who blurs the lines of class, politics, and morality. David Afriyie Donkor identifies social performance as a way to understand trickster behavior within the shifting process of political legitimization in Ghana, revealing stories that exploit the social ideologies of economic neoliberalism and political democratization. At the level of policy, neither ideology was...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0253021456
• ISBN13: 9780253021458
• Release Date: July 2016
• Publisher: Indiana University Press (Ips)
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher