Responding to Global Challenges : Voices in Language and Literature / Camilla Tabe and Ngong Sam.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tabe, Camilla, author.

Sam, Ngong, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English language--Globalization.

English language.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (284 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Spears Media Press 2023

Denver, CO : Spears Books, [2023]

Summary:

This book critically explores global challenges from linguistic and literary standpoints aimed at contributing towards their mitigation. Composed of two parts, contributors to the first section examine issues such as language use in the Anglophone crisis in Cameroon, the Covid-19 pandemic, migration, ethnic conflict, hate speech and language shift. The second part comprises essays that foreground global problems in literary texts. Contributors survey global problems like terrorism, gender inequality, racism and neo-colonialism, which engender horror and fuel violence. Drawn from various literary texts from Cameroon, Africa, Europe and America, contributors propose language and literature responses to global issues. These include using appropriate language and concrete techniques to assist citizens and world leaders convey precise messages for better understanding and nation-building. New communication strategies could also be adopted to keep life going and improve solidarity worldwide. Finally, contributors submit that dialogue could be a panacea through stakeholder collaboration and that negotiation is a productive solution to peace and harmony.

Contents:

Cover

Editorial board

Title page

Copyright

Contents

Illustrations and tables

Foreword

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Part One: Language and Global Challenges

1 Inside the Virtual 'State'

2 Memes, Deep Fake Images of Public Figures and Hate Captions on the Anglophone Crisis on Facebook

3 The Pragmatics of Greeting and Face Management in the Covid-19 Era in Northern Cameroon

4 Conceptualisation of Covid-19 Metaphors in the Printed Word in English

5 An Analysis of the Communication Strategies During the Covid-19 Pandemic

6 Linguistic Undertones of (Mis)apprehension, (Mis)trust, Panic and Assurance

7 Language Shift amongst Refugee Children in Koza

8 Addressing Global Challenges from a Linguistic Perspective

Part Two: Literature and Global Challenges

9 Freedom Fighters or Terrorists?

10 Post-Apartheid Multiracial Democracy and 'New' Patterns of Social Inequality in Nadine Gordimer's The House Gun and Nicholas Mhlongo's Dog Eat Dog and After Tears

11 Politics of Gender in African and African American Dramaturgy

12 The Intricacies of Racial Stigma

13 On the Margins of National Heritage

14 Santa Claus on the Cross

Appendix I

Appendix II

List of Contributors

Index

Back cover.

Notes:

Includes index.

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ISBN:

9781957296173

1957296178