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Your Madness, Not Mine: Stories of Cameroon
Makuchi
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Description for Your Madness, Not Mine: Stories of Cameroon
Paperback. Women's writing in Cameroon has so far been dominated by Francophone writers. This title includes short stories that 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. Series: Ohio RIS Africa Series. Num Pages: 181 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DN; DSB; FA; FYB; JFSJ1; JFSL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 227.
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, but especially about Cameroonian women, who 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 ... Read more
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, but especially about Cameroonian women, who 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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Ohio University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Series
Ohio RIS Africa Series
Condition
New
Weight
227g
Number of Pages
158
Place of Publication
Athens, United States
ISBN
9780896802063
SKU
V9780896802063
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About Makuchi
Makuchi is professor of English and Comparative Literature at North Carolina State University, Raleigh. Her publications include a book of short fiction, Your Madness, Not Mine: Stories of Cameroon, and Gender in African Women's Writing: Identity, Sexuality, and Difference.
Reviews for Your Madness, Not Mine: Stories of Cameroon
The characters Makuchi creates are survivors; they are scrappy and they are strong, especially the women. As we enter their world and see the neocolonial forces of gargantuan proportions that shape their daily living, Makuchi's pen guides us into a new literary space. She wields her pen like a pioneer's axe in the forest, clearing new spaces...that invite us to ... Read more