Landscaping postcoloniality : the dissemination of Cameroon anglophone literature / Joyce B. Ashuntantang.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ashuntantang, Joyce.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cameroonian literature (English)--History and criticism.

Cameroonian literature (English).

Book industries and trade--Cameroon.

Book industries and trade--Africa, English-speaking.

Booksellers and bookselling--Cameroon.

Booksellers and bookselling--Africa, English-speaking.

Publishers and publishing--Cameroon.

Publishers and publishing.

Booksellers and bookselling.

Book industries and trade.

Cameroon.

English-speaking Africa.

Physical Description:

x, 174 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Mankon, Bamenda, Cameroon : Langaa ; [East Lansing?] : Distributed in N. America by Michigan State University Press, 2009.

Summary:

This is a foundational text on the production and dissemination of Anglophone Cameroon literature. The Republic of Cameroon is a bilingual country with English and French as the official languages. Ashuntantang shows that the pattern of production and dissemination of Anglophone Cameroon literature is not only framed by the minority status of English and English-speaking Cameroonians within the Republic of Cameroon, but is also a reflection of a postcolonial reality in Africa where mostly African literary texts published by western multi-national corporations are assured wide international accessibility and readership. This book establishes that in spite of these setbacks, Anglophone Cameroon writers have produced a corpus of work that has enriched the genres of prose, poetry and drama, and that these texts deserve a wider readership.

Notes:

"Appendix. Anglophone Cameroon literature : a comprehensive bibliography of primary texts and selected criticism": pages 149-166.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 138-147) and index.

ISBN:

995655829X

9789956558292

OCLC:

318571330

Publisher Number:

99938054111