TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bjornson,Richard
TI  - The African quest for freedom and identity: Cameroonian writing and the national experience 
SN  - 0253311942 :
AV  - PQ3988.5.C27 B55 1991
U1  - 840.9/96711 20
PY  - 1991///]
CY  - Bloomington
PB  - Indiana University Press
KW  - Cameroonian literature (French)
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - National liberation movements in literature
KW  - Cameroonian literature
KW  - National liberation movements
KW  - Cameroon
KW  - Nationalism in literature
KW  - Nationalism
KW  - Movimientos de liberación nacional en la literatura
KW  - Nacionalismo en la literatura
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc
KW  - fast
N1  - 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; Also issued online
ER  -