Your madness, not mine : stories of Cameroon / by Makuchi ; with an introduction by Eloise A. Brière.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nfah-Abbenyi, Juliana Makuchi, 1958-

Contributor:

Ohio University. Center for International Studies.

Series:

Monographs in international studies. Africa series ; no. 70.

Monographs in international studies. Africa series ; no. 70

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cameroon--Social life and customs--Fiction.

Cameroon.

Manners and customs.

Genre:

Fiction.

Physical Description:

xxiv, 157 pages ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

Athens : Ohio University Center for International Studies, [1999]

Summary:

Women's writing in Cameroon has so far been dominated by Francophone writers. The short stories in this collection represent the yearnings and vision of an Anglophone woman, who writes both as a Cameroonian and as a woman whose life has been shaped by the minority status her people occupy within the nation-state.

The stories in Your Madness, Not Mine are about postcolonial Cameroon -- women, more often than not, are at the center of these stories that probe their day-to-day experiences of survival and empowerment as they deal with gender oppression: from patriarchal expectations to the malaise of maldevelopment, unemployment, and the attraction of the West for young Cameroonians.

Contents:

The healer

Your madness, not mine

Market scene

The forest will claim you too

Election fever

American lottery

Accidents are a sideshow

Bayam-sellam

Slow poison.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

089680206X

OCLC:

40200422