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Record Nr.

UNINA9910809421203321

Titolo

Critical perspectives on Cameroon writing / / edited by Hansel Ndumbe Eyoh, Albert Azeyeh, Nalova Lyonga

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bamenda, Cameroon, : Langaa Research & Pub. Common Initiative Group, c2013

ISBN

9956-791-48-2

9956-790-71-0

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (569 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

EyohH. Ndumbe (Hansel Ndumbe)

AzeyehAlbert

LyongaNalova

Disciplina

840.93554096711

Soggetti

Cameroonian literature - History and criticism

Literature

Nationalism in literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Selected papers from the 2nd Conference on Cameroon Liteature, held at the University of Buea, 1994.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Foreword/preface / Hansel Ndumbe Eyoh -- Speeches -- Keynote address -- General -- Folklore -- Prose -- Drama -- Language -- Children's literature -- History and journalism -- Translation.

Sommario/riassunto

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.