Emerging Perspectives On Alobwed Epie

Author : Sarah Anyang Agbor,Manyaka Toko Djockoua,Stephen Ambe Mforteh
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2018-12-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781527523678

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Emerging Perspectives on Alobwed’Epie by Sarah Anyang Agbor,Manyaka Toko Djockoua,Stephen Ambe Mforteh Pdf

This collection of essays poses the problem of the preservation of cultural identities in the present-day global context. The comparative approach of this cultural study shows the universal dimension of the issues raised in the book, highlighting that gender equality, women’s emancipation, ethnicity, religion, tradition, oppression, resistance, modernity and linguistic affinities are recurrent in many contemporary national literatures.

Author : Ernest L. VEYU,Stephen A. MFORTEH
Publisher : Ken Scholars Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2021-11-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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GLOBALISATION AND TRANSITIONAL IDEOLOGIES by Ernest L. VEYU,Stephen A. MFORTEH Pdf

The papers in this volume define the departure from the margin to the centre, assess emerging literatures and shifting language concerns, dismantle the hegemony of colonial English, propose alternatives to the ‘imperialism’ that underlies globalisation, and question hegemonic assumptions in language and literature.

Author : A. Ambanasom
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2013-02-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789956790500

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Perspectives on Written Cameroon Literature in English by A. Ambanasom Pdf

In 2009, Anglophone Cameroon literature celebrated its fifty years of existence. Now at the mature age of fifty plus this literature has a great deal to write home about even if it still has a lot to do in its pursuit of excellence. Part of its maturity resides in the fact that although the scale of literary creativity and literary criticism is skewed in favour of the former, Anglophone Cameroon literary criticism is gradually waking up from slumber in an attempt to catch up with the rapidly expanding creativity. The essays in this book comment practically on some aspects of all the genres of written literature that the Anglophone Cameroon creative writers have produced so far: the novel, drama, poetry, the short story, the essay and childrens literature. The essays, on the whole, are a testimony of the transition and reality from the apparent drought of Anglophone Cameroon literary paucity to the actual fruitful period of Anglophone Cameroon abundance of literary creativity. The Anglophone Cameroonians have appropriated an imperial language, English, to serve their postcolonial Cameroonian vision. Their various literary texts are vehicles of representations that are essentially cultural and ideological constructs. The works examined are initially anchored on Cameroonian experiences to take on social significance. As they are grounded on moving human experiences, these works necessarily make references to the immediate Cameroonian environment of their authors before taking on universal human significance. The book abundantly evidences and crowns Shadrach Ambanasoms achievements and reputation as a skilled pedagogue on the art of practical literary criticism.

Author : Charles Alobwede D'Epie,Alobwed'Epie
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Cameroon
ISBN : IND:30000109144158

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The Lady with a Beard by Charles Alobwede D'Epie,Alobwed'Epie Pdf

Author : Hansel Ndumbe Eyoh,Albert Azeyeh,Nalova Lyonga
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 569 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789956790814

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Critical Perspectives on Cameroon Writing by Hansel Ndumbe Eyoh,Albert Azeyeh,Nalova Lyonga Pdf

This landmark volume brings together a very rich harvest of forty critical essays on Cameroon literature by Cameroon literary scholars. The book is the result of the Second Conference on Cameroon Literature which took place at the University of Buea in 1994. The Buea conference was motivated by a determination to look at Cameroon literature straight into its face and criticize it using literary criteria of the strictest kind. Gone were the times when the criticism was complacent because it was believed that a nascent literature could easily be stifled by application of rather strict cannons of literary criticism. Both writers and critics had a lot to say. Subjects dealt with ranged from general topics on literature, survival and national identity, through specialized articles on prose, poetry, drama, translation, language, folklore, children's literature, Journalism and politics. It is the hope of the volume editors that the publication of these papers will instigate the kind of actions that were recommended and that the prolific nature of Cameroon literature will equally give rise to a prolific and robust criticism.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 509 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2024
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9782336453248

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Promotion des langues nationales et perspectives pédagogiques dans une Afrique multilingue-multiculturelle by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Africa
ISBN : STANFORD:36105213189629

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The African Book Publishing Record by Anonim Pdf

Author : S. A. Ambanasom
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Cameroon fiction (English)
ISBN : 9789956558698

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The Cameroonian Novel of English Expression. An Introduction by S. A. Ambanasom Pdf

In this eclectic and compelling book, Ambanasom sets out to achieve three primary objectives: to introduce the reader to the extensive body of Cameroonian novels in English, to re-examine the distorting and limiting criteria upon which the critical assessment of the Cameroonian novel in English has so far been based, and to bridge the widening chasm between literary theory and actual critical practice. To achieve these objectives, Ambanasom begins by elaborating an alternative and flexible theoretical framework which he christens the 'Socio-Artistic Approach' and which, according to him, is 'concerned with both a text's thematic, moral, cultural or ideological issues, on the one hand, and its central literary analysis, on the other.' He then proceeds to use this new critical framework to examine twenty-seven major Cameroonian novels in English.

Author : Alobwed'Epie Alobwed'Epie
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 62 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2011-04-19
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9789956579105

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Crying in Hiccoughs by Alobwed'Epie Alobwed'Epie Pdf

Crying in Hiccoughs is a graphic presentation of the more realistic phase of Africa's politico-economic and historico-moral evolution in general, and Cameroon's, in particular. From the colonial to the post-independence era, the poet sees nothing worthy of praise-singing and handclapping. So, he resorts to crying in hiccoughs and invites the blind, deaf and dumb brainwashed praise-singers to join him in singing his little songs so as to expose and challenge the demagogy.

Author : Gomia, Victor N.,Ndi, Gilbert Shang
Publisher : Spears Media Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2018-02-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781942876182

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Re-writing Pasts, Imagining Futures by Gomia, Victor N.,Ndi, Gilbert Shang Pdf

The papers in this volume focus on fiction and theatre in their traditional forms as well as in their encounters with novel and innovative forms and avenues of dissemination. As a cultural practice that emerged from a process of protest and contestation of hegemony, it is understandable that one main concern in African literature and literary criticism is the resistance against the emergence of marginalizing centers in formerly or currently marginalized societies with regard to discourses, aesthetics and media of creation. These new centers that sometimes undermine the strategic/tactical exploitation of the relative advantage procured by each medium run the risk of leading to new forms of stratification that mitigate the import of African and African diasporic literatures. The collection of essays therefore seeks to analyze the representation of pertinent socio-political and historical questions in a variety of postcolonial texts from Africa and the African diasporas, notably the Caribbean islands and the United States of America. However, far from re-writing of history in a way that cedes to conservative worldviews, creative writers and critics simultaneously attempt to chart ways forward for socially all-inclusive futures. In the context of colonial and neo-colonial legacies that seem to forestall any sense of individual and collective self-fulfillment, contributors to this volume examine the pertinence of African fiction and theatre in imagining new vistas of re-conceptualizing the postcolonial condition in ways that re-galvanize the belief in an enabling future.

Author : Olayiwola Abegunrin,Sabella Abidde
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2018-07-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781527514256

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African Intellectuals and the State of the Continent by Olayiwola Abegunrin,Sabella Abidde Pdf

This festschrift is composed in honor of a distinguished scholar and Pan-Africanist, Professor Sulayman S. Nyang, whose career and intellectual pursuits spans more than 45 years—much of it at Howard University. Nyang’s contributions to African affairs transcend the scope of the academic world as he served as First Secretary and Head of Chancery of the Gambian Embassy in Saudi Arabia from 1975 to 1977, and consultant to the World Bank and United Nations agencies. In addition, Professor Nyang served as the President of the Interfaith Conference of Metropolitan Washington, DC, and a member of the boards of many academic journals, and organizations of Islamic Studies in the USA. He has published copiously on a variety of issues affecting continental Africans, Africans in the Diaspora, and beyond. He has published and collaborated on dozens of books and book chapters and more than 100 articles in referred journals.

Author : Alobwed'Epie,Charles Alobwede D'Epie
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Cameroon
ISBN : 9789956616626

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What a Next of Kin! by Alobwed'Epie,Charles Alobwede D'Epie Pdf

This psycho-anthropological and socio-cultural novel logically and succinctly x-rays the foundations and raison d'Ítre of patriarchy through the implied questions - Is wealth the basis of patriarchy? Have women any role in the system? And how far can a patriarch protect his lineage from alien blood? The extremely wealthy father of eight daughters protagonist Ndi, says yes, to the first question; no, to the second; and in the third questions he says, through dogged pursuance of looking for a male heir by any means; but his lone son whom he unknowingly begot in a remote village in his early life and whom he accidentally stumbled upon and adopted as his heir in his odyssey of looking for a male heir through a series of marriages, says no, to the first question; yes, to the second and to the third question, he says fate is the umpire; and succeeds in convincing his father that he is right.

Author : Mbuh Tennu Mbuh,Meera Chakravorty,John Clammer
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2022-12-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000775198

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Writing in Times of Displacement by Mbuh Tennu Mbuh,Meera Chakravorty,John Clammer Pdf

This book presents diverse, composite, non-exclusive and non-hierarchical perspectives on displacement of people as represented in literature. It examines the experiences of migration as a result of wars, natural disasters, religious strife, loss of livelihoods and shifts in local and global economies and the vulnerabilities they expose. Bringing together scholarly insights into literature about displacement and migration from Africa, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East, the book interrogates the development frames of Western modernity and situates displacement within the discourse of disenfranchisement of citizens by nation-states. It explores the experiences, memories and expressions of displacement in literature and how literary works critique ethical and moral responsibilities of states and communities that often do not account for the loss which displacement causes to the health, education, career, or relationships of displaced people. The volume will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of literature, philosophy, migration and diaspora studies, development studies, African studies and Asian studies.

Author : Sabella Ogbobode Abidde,Brenda Ingrid Gill
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2018-01-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781498550895

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Africans and the Exiled Life by Sabella Ogbobode Abidde,Brenda Ingrid Gill Pdf

Since their early beginning in Africa as foragers, hunters and gatherers, humans have been on the move. In modern times, their movements have been compelled by geographical, economic, political, cultural, social and personal reasons. However, beginning in the second-half of the twentieth century and into the twenty-first century their reasons for and pattern of migration have been largely influenced by globalization. Globalization, by its very nature, cuts across virtually every aspect of the human life and human society. And especially in the United States, African immigrants are subject to the undercurrents of globalization – particularly in the areas of culture, religion, interpersonal relationships, and the assimilation and acculturation process. Relying on the vast theoretical and practical experience of academics and public intellectuals across three continents, this book succinctly interrogates some of the pull/push factors of migration, the challenges of globalizing forces, and the daily reality of relocation. The everyday reality and experiences of blacks in the diaspora (Latin America, Caribbean, and Europe) are also part of the discourse and the subject matters are approached from different perspectives and paradigms. Africans and the Exiled Life, therefore, is a compelling and rich addition to the ongoing global debate and understanding of migration and exile.

Author : Priscillia M. Manjoh
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2018-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783643908919

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Representations and Renegotiations of the Nation in Anglophone Cameroonian Literature by Priscillia M. Manjoh Pdf

Guided by postcolonial theory and the ideas of some Western and African philosophers this study's in-depth analysis of the novels of three Anglophone Cameroonian authors addresses the question of how principles of nation formation and nationalism are influenced by both colonialism and pre-colonial in situ constituents. The analysis focuses on how nations represented in the imaginary worlds constructed by the novelists are dominated by aspects such as ethnicity, corruption, authoritarianism, nepotism, solidarity and communitarianism which marginalize the masses, leaving them in misery and abject poverty. Tracing the historical settings of the novels from 1948 till present day, the study delineates the writers' representation of the Anglophones of Cameroon as being marginalized as well as suffering from self-marginalization and also demonstrates how postcolonial misery in Africa is not caused solely by colonialism but by several other aspects. This study reads the works of these Anglophone novelists not only as representing aspects in a nation but as tools of renegotiating a better society and a way forward for this nation.