Obasinjom warrior : the life and works of Bate Besong / Emmanuel Fru Doh.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Doh, Emmanuel Fru, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Authors, African--Biography.

Authors, African.

African literature (English)--Bio-bibliography.

African literature (English).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (232 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bamenda, Cameroon : Langaa Research & Publishing Common Initiative Group, 2014.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

On March 8, 2007, one of Cameroonís foremost scholars died in a ghastly traffic accident barely hours after launching his most forthright and acerbic collection of poems: Disgrace: Autobiographical Narcissus. Dr. Bate Besong was a social activist, a critic, troubadour, and playwright; an avant-garde, steeped in the tradition of the absurd, who fought against the corrupt system of governance that transmuted Cameroonians into a comatose and apathetic citizenry neutered by fear engendered by the workings of an existing Gestapo. For the first time, Emmanuel Fru Doh has gone beyond an analysis of B.

Contents:

Cover

Title page

Copyright page

Dedication

Contents

Preface

Introduction

PART I - BATE BESONG: THE MAN

1. Childhood and School Years

2. Bate Besong: His Career

3. Bate Besong: Distinguishing Himself

4. Bate Besong and His Family

PART II - BATE BESONG: HIS WORKS

5. Poetry

Polyphemus Detainee and Other Skulls (1980)

The Grain of Bobe Ngom Jua (1985)

Obasinjom Warrior With Poems After Detention (1991)

Disgrace: Autobiographical Narcissus and Emanya-nkpe Collected Poems (2007)

Just Above Cameroon: Selected Poems 1980 - 1994 (1998)

6. Drama

The Most Cruel Death of the Talkative Zombie (1986)

Beasts of No Nation (1990)

Requiem for the Last Kaiser (1991)

The Banquet (1994)

Change Waka &amp

His Man Sawa Boy (2001)

Once Upon Great Lepers (2003)

Conclusion

Notes

Works Cited

INDEX

Back cover.

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 200-205) and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed August 23, 2014).

ISBN:

9789956792986

9956792985

OCLC:

891381272