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UNINA9910456369703321 |
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Autore |
Alembong Nol |
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Titolo |
Forest echoes [[electronic resource] ] : poems / / Nol Alembong |
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Bamenda, Cameroon, : Langaa |
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[East Lansing, Mich.], : Distributed in N. America by Michigan State University Press, 2010 |
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ISBN |
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1-283-19796-0 |
9956-715-65-4 |
9786613197962 |
9956-715-77-8 |
9956-616-42-7 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (94 p.) |
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Soggetti |
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Cameroonian poetry (English) - 21st century |
Electronic books. |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Introduction; The Beginning; Forest; Forest Echoes; The Crossing; Living East of the Mungo; Remembering February 11, 1961; The Democrat and His Fans; The Sin to Glory; The New Prophets; The Plague; Tears; Sleepwalking; The Aerial Tour; Bamenda; Harvest Reports; Tug-of-war; Harvest Thanksgiving; Of Good and Bad Dogs; Saturday Nights off Campus; Asumpta; Lebialem; Bangwa Tiger; To an Ambazonian Warrior; To You, Florence; Cycles; Bridging the Atlantic; Speaking; Favourite Name; Song of Awambeh; Tekwombuo; Anqwa; The Celebration; Hunting; Tell Me |
Who Knows?Green Call; Hawks; The Mosquito and Us; The Clap; Revelation; Glossary; Back cover |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Forest Echoes is a literary quilt revealing a mature poet bestriding generations as he patches together a people's culture, their philosophy, history, along with their attendant woes into a subtle, sometimes disillusioning even, yet purposeful and poignant whole. Nol Alembong is not afraid to be himself in this work: a scholar, teacher, parent, traditionalist and, above all, an Anglophone-Cameroonian. Whatever |
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the case, these are magisterial and equally influential individual traits that have merged into a united whole in forging this poet's identity and concerns as evident from the thematic p |
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