Your Madness, Not Mine. Makuchi
Языкознание. Research in International Studies, Africa Series
Your Madness, Not Mine
Год выпуска 0
isbn 9780896804357
Автор произведения Makuchi
Жанр Языкознание
Серия Research in International Studies, Africa Series
Издательство Ingram
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 the attraction of the West for young Cameroonians. Makuchi has given us powerful portraits of the people of postcolonial Africa in the so-called global village who too often go unseen and unheard.