Bordered Identities in Language, Literature, and Culture

Readings on Cameroon and the Global Space
1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-1-5275-2936-6
Verlag: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 240 Seiten

Cameroon’s composite state of postcoloniality inevitably burdened it with a linguistic and pedagogic culture that changed the eager student into a centripetal mimic of the colonial imagination. Recent events in the country, especially relating to the Anglophone Problem, have spotlighted the need to revisit this space, which has been over-politicised into what Anglophone Cameroonians see as a state of hypnosis. Given the clash between postcolonial consciousness and the globalizing forces of late capitalism, a necessary meeting point had to be negotiated in linguistic and pedagogic contexts, to (re)affirm the identity problematic in Cameroon, and in the interpretation of colonial voices in literary texts. Bordered Identities in Language, Literature, and Culture: Readings on Cameroon and the Global Space offers a variegated reflection on these issues, and simultaneously responds to increasing demands to re-negotiate identity beyond mega frames of Empire, based on contextual data that combine indigenous and globalising imperatives.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturen sonstiger Sprachräume Afrikanische Literaturen
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik Geschichte der Pädagogik, Richtungen in der Pädagogik
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Ethnolinguistik
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachpolitik
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften

Über Autor(innen)

Mbuh Tennu Mbuh is Associate Professor in British Literature and Postcolonial Studies. A Fulbright and Commonwealth scholar, he holds a PhD from the University of Nottingham, UK. He is also a writer, President of the Anglophone Cameroon Writers’ Association (ACWA), and Head of the English Department of the University of Bamenda, Cameroon.

Emelda Ngufor Samba is a Senior Lecturer and the Head of the Performing Arts and Cinematography Section of the University of Yaoundé I, Cameroon. She holds a PhD in Drama and Theatre Studies and a Postgraduate Diploma in the Teaching of English (DIPES II). She has a passion for acting and directing; and has directed a number of stage and TV plays in Cameroon, coordinated activities in celebration of the US Embassy’s Black History Month and Women’s History Month. The author of Women in Theatre for Development in Cameroon, she is also coordinator of the People Theatre and Cinema for Social Change troupe.