Landscaping Postcoloniality. The Dissemination of Cameroon Anglophone Literature: The Dissemination of Cameroon Anglophone Literature

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“This text is a very useful supplement to Richard Bjornson’s The African Quest for Freedom and Identity, which concentrated primarily on literary texts from Francophone Cameroon. Dr. Ashuntantang, a skilled librarian, bibliographer and literary scholar, deals in depth with the environmental circumstances that have thwarted writers who have chosen to express themselves in English, but she shows how progress nevertheless has been made, particularly in recent years. This is the most comprehensive study of Anglophone Cameroon literature that has been published to date.” - Bernth Lindfors, Professor Emeritus, University of Texas at Austin. “This study affirms the vibrancy of Anglophone Cameroon literature; it proves beyond reasonable doubt that there is a great deal of published work out there, and that its landscape is not only national but equally diasporic. This text is an important milestone in Anglophone scholarship. It should be a required text for scholars with an interest in Anglophone Cameroon/ African Literature.” - Shadrack Ambanasom, Prof. of African Literature, E.N.S. Bambili/University of Yaounde I, Cameroon. 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. Joyce B. Ashuntantang was born in Kumba Town, Cameroon. An Actress, screenwriter and filmmaker, she has studied in Cameroon, Great Britain and the USA. She earned a B.A in English from the University of Yaoundé, Cameroon, a Masters in Librarianship from the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, U.K., and an M.phil/ Ph.D in English from the City University of New York, Graduate Center. She has been teaching English/African Literature at the University of Connecticut at Storrs/Greater Hartford, USA since 2003. Langaa Research and Publishing Common Initiative Group P.O. Box 902 Mankon Bamenda North West Province Cameroon ...