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- The Obasinjom Warrior: The Life and Works of Bate Besong
- Book
- 2014
- Published by: LANGAA RPCIG
summary
On March 8, 2007, one of Cameroon�s 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 Besong�s plays into giving an in-depth appraisal of his poems which have, for a long time, held back critics because of their opacity. Doh examines each of Besong�s plays and collections of poems in separate sections and succeeds in setting Besong�s work in perspective�mindful of their concerns and the nation�s history�as informed by a succinct political vision and an already established technique modified only by genre. The Obasinjom Warrior, which amounts to a brief look at the scholar�s life and a detailed study of his works, is a befitting tribute to a true patriot and scholar who died fighting the forces of evil, in positions of power, which have transformed his native Cameroon into a province of hell. This is a careful, detailed, and authoritative study of one of the most significant literary figures ever to emerge from Cameroon.
Table of Contents
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- Introduction
- pp. ix-xvi
- PART I - BATE BESONG: THE MAN
- 2. Bate Besong: His Career
- pp. 7-15
- 4. Bate Besong and His Family
- pp. 21-23
- PART II - BATE BESONG: HIS WORKS
- Conclusion
- pp. 186-192
- Works Cited
- pp. 200-206
Additional Information
ISBN
9789956792986
MARC Record
OCLC
891404397
Pages
230
Launched on MUSE
2014-09-26
Language
English
Open Access
No