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Format: Häftad (Trade paperback)
Språk: Engelska
Serie: Research in International Studies, Africa Series
Antal sidor: 224
Utgivningsdatum: 2007-12-01
Förlag: Ohio University Press
Dimensioner: 220 x 146 x 15 mm
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ISBN: 9780896802568

Sacred Door and Other Stories

Name: Sacred Door and Other Stories
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Author: Juliana Makuchi Abbenyi-Nfah, Makuchi, Makuchi
ISBN: 9780896802568

Cameroon Folktales of the Beba

av Juliana Makuchi Abbenyi-Nfah, Makuchi, Makuchi

Häftad, Engelska, 2007-12-01

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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 traditions. Makuchi retells the stories that she heard at home when she was growing up in her native Cameroon. The collection of thirty-four folktales of the Beba showcases a wide variety of stories that capture the richness and complexities of an agrarian society's oral literature and traditions. Revenge, greed, and deception are among the themes that frame the story lines in both new and familiar ways. In the title story, a poor man finds himself elevated to king. The condition for his continued success is that he not open the sacred door. This tale of temptation, similar to the story of Pandora's box, concludes with the question, "What would you have done?" Makuchi relates the stories her mother told her so that readers can make connections between African and North American oral narrative traditions. These tales reinforce the commonalities of our human experiences without discounting our differences.

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Your Madness, not Mine

Juliana Makuchi Abbenyi-Nfah, Makuchi, Makuchi

Women's 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 shape...

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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 Women's Writing: Identity, Sexuality, and Difference.