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Format: Häftad (Paperback / softback)
Språk: Engelska
Antal sidor: 158
Utgivningsdatum: 1999-02-01
Förlag: Ohio University Press
Medarbetare: Brire, Eloise A. (introd.)
Illustrationer: black & white illustrations
Dimensioner: 213 x 138 x 13 mm
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Antal komponenter: 1
Komponenter: xxiv, 157 p. ;
ISBN: 9780896802063

Your Madness, Not Mine

Name: Your Madness, Not Mine
Price: 321.00 SEK
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Author: Juliana Makuchi Abbenyi-Nfah
ISBN: 9780896802063

Stories of Cameroon

av Juliana Makuchi Abbenyi-Nfah

Häftad, Engelska, 1999-02-01

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Womens writing in Cameroon has so far been dominated by Francophone writers. The short stories in this collection represent the yearnings and vision of an Anglophone woman, who writes both as a Cameroonian and as a woman whose life has been shaped by the minority status her people occupy within the nation-state. The stories in Your Madness, Not Mine are about postcolonial Cameroon, but especially about Cameroonian women, who probe their day-to-day experiences of survival and empowerment as they deal with gender oppression: from patriarchal expectations to the malaise of maldevelopment, unemployment, and the attraction of the West for young Cameroonians. Makuchi has given us powerful portraits of the people of postcolonial Africa in the so-called global village who too often go unseen and unheard.

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The Sacred Door and Other Stories: Cameroon Folktales of the Beba offers readers a selection of folktales infused with riddles, proverbs, songs, myths, and legends, using various narrative techniques that capture the vibrancy of Beba oral traditio...

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The characters Makuchi creates are survivors; they are scrappy and they are strong, especially the women. As we enter their world and see the neocolonial forces of gargantuan proportions that shape their daily living, Makuchi's pen guides us into a new literary space. She wields her pen like a pioneer's axe in the forest, clearing new spacesthat invite us to consider realities we would otherwise never know.

Makuchi is professor of English and Comparative Literature at North Carolina State University, Raleigh. Her publications include a book of short fiction, Your Madness, Not Mine: Stories of Cameroon, and Gender in African Womens Writing: Identity, Sexuality, and Difference.

The healer -- Your madness, not mine -- Market scene -- The forest will claim you too -- Election fever -- American lottery -- Accidents are a sideshow -- Bayam-sellam -- Slow poison.