The African quest for freedom and identity : Cameroonian writing and the national experience / Richard Bjornson.
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TextPublisher: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [1991]Copyright date: ©1991Description: xvii, 507 pages : 2 maps ; 24 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0253311942 :
- 9780253311948
- Cameroonian literature (French) -- History and criticism
- National liberation movements in literature
- Cameroonian literature -- History and criticism
- National liberation movements -- Cameroon
- Nationalism in literature
- Nationalism -- Cameroon
- Movimientos de liberación nacional en la literatura
- Nacionalismo en la literatura
- Cameroon -- Politics and government
- 840.9/96711 20
- PQ3988.5.C27 B55 1991
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 461-494) and index.
National identity and national literatures in Africa -- The ambiguous blessing : European culture in Cameroon -- Antocolonialism and revolution -- Dream and disillusionment in the novels of Ferdinand Oyono -- Mongo Beti : counterhistory and critical consciousness -- Independence and the myth of national unity -- Cultural politics and the new nation -- In search of a popular idiom -- Cameroonian reflections on negritude and authenticity -- The anti-negritude movement -- Literature and the pursuit of self -- Guillaume Oyono-Mbia and the rise of Cameroonian theater -- Francis Bebey and the theme of reconciliation -- Cultural politics in an age of transition -- Writing and popular culture -- The reemergence of Mongo Beti -- The radical critique of postcolonial society -- Individual identity and moral idealism : the theme of reconciliation in recent Cameroonian fiction -- The corrupt society and the sensitive self : literary anatomies of contemporary Cameroon -- New voices in Cameroonian theater: Conclusion: National literature and national identity in Cameroon.
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