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The African quest for freedom and identity : Cameroonian writing and the national experience / Richard Bjornson.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [1991]Copyright date: ©1991Description: xvii, 507 pages : 2 maps ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0253311942 :
  • 9780253311948
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Online version:: African quest for freedom and identity.DDC classification:
  • 840.9/96711 20
LOC classification:
  • PQ3988.5.C27 B55 1991
Also issued online.
Contents:
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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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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