Perspectives on Written Cameroon Literature in English

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vii Sources General Essays 1. ‘Half a Century of Written Anglophone Cameroon Literature.’ Paper presented first at the fifth ACWA Conference in the British Council in Yaoundé (2008), and then later as a keynote address on the occasion of the EduArt Literary Awards Night at Capitol Hotel Buea July 18, 2008. Posted at EduArt Website. 2. ‘Critical Approaches in the Criticism of Cameroon Literature of English Expression.’ Paper presented at a language and literature seminar organised by the English Department of the University of Buea in January 2001. Published in Chia, Tala and Jick (eds.) Globalisation and the African Experience: Implications for Language, Literature and Education. Anucam 2005. 3. ‘Cameroon Creative Writers and the Language Problem.’ Paper published in South-South Journal of Culture and Development. Special Edition, Volume 3 No. 2 December 2001. 4. ‘The African Writer and the Preservation of Cultural Values.’ Paper first published in my monograph: Matter and Manner Bamenda: Unique Printers, 1990. Still in the early 1990s the very version of the paper was published by Cameroon Tribune. 5. ‘The Cameroonian Novel of English Expression.’ Paper published in South-South Journal of Culture and Development Volume 8 No. 1 June 2006. Specific Literary Studies 6. ‘Ideology in Three Dramatic Works: Victor Epie Ngome’s What God Has Put Asunder, and Bate Besong’s Beasts of No Nation and Requiem for the Last Kaiser.’ Paper initially programmed to be published by the English Department of viii the University of Buea as Perspectives on Anglophone Cameroon Drama. 7. ‘The Educational Significance of the Cameroon Novel of English Expression: Focus on Four Texts.’ Paper presented at International Conference on Language, Literature and Education, University of Yaoundé I. 11 – 14 May 2006. Proceedings published in Kenneth Harrow and Kizitus Mpoche (eds.) Language, Literature and Education in Multicultural Societies, Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2008. 8. ‘Deconstructing Gender Hierarchy: A Study of Margaret Afuh’s Born Before Her Time.’ Paper presented at ACWA first Annual Conference in Bamenda 2003. Presented again in its present form at 1st International Conference on Language, Literature and Identity, University of Yaoundé I 31 March – 3 April 2005. Proceedings published in Paul Mbangwana, Kizitus Mpoche, Tennu Mbuh (eds.) Language, Literature and Identity. Göttigen: Cuvillier Verlag, 2006. 9. ‘The Anti-Heroes of L. T. Asong’s Fiction: Focus on Four Texts.’ Paper published in Edward O. Ako (ed.) Cameroon Literature in English: Critical Essays on Fiction and Drama. Berlin: LIT. Verlag, 2009. 10. ‘Two Opposing Trends in Mongo Beti’s Fiction: A Study of Remember Ruben and Perpetua.’ Paper published in Epasa Moto. Volume 2 No. 1 March 2004. 11. ‘Pedagogy of the Deprived: A Study of the Plays of Victor Epie Ngome, Bole Butake, and Bate Besong.’ Paper presented at Conference on Cameroon Literature, University of Buea in 1994, whose proceedings were published in a special edition of Epasa Moto 1996. 12. ‘Anatomy of a Short Story: An Analysis of Bole Butake’s The Way of the City’. Paper presented in Yaoundé on the occasion of Professor Bole Butake’s 50th anniversary, 1997. 13. ‘The Orality of the Works of Four Anglophone Writers: Linus Asong, Bole Butake, Bongasu Kishani, Fale Wache.’ Paper presented at Workshop on Anglophone Writing in Cameroon held at the Goethe Institute, Yaoundé 1993. ix Proceedings were published that very year by Bayreuth African Studies 30 (WEKA No 1). 14. ‘The Modernist Character of Bate Besong’s Poetry.’ Paper published in Epasa Moto Volume 4 No 1 March, 2009. 15. ‘The Quintessence of Bernard Fonlon.’ Paper published in my monograph: Matter and Manner, Bamenda: Unique Printers, 1990. Book Reviews 16. Bole Butake, Lake God and Other Plays. Yaoundé: Editions CLE, 1999. Review published in M. Banham, J. Gibbs, F. Osofisan (eds.) African Theatre: Playwrights & Politics. Oxford: James Currey, 2001. 17. L. T. Asong, The Akroma File. Bamenda: Patron Publishing House, 1997. Review published in Voices: The Wisconsin Review of African Literatures. (Fall 1999) Issue 2. 18. Alobwed’Epie, The Death Certificate. Yaoundé: Editions CLE, 2004. Review published in The Post No. 0639 (Monday February 7, 2005):8. 19. John Nkemngong Nkengasong, Across The Mongolo. Ibadan: Spectrum Books Limited, 2004. Review published in The Post No. 0635 (Monday 24 January 2005): 4. 20. Alobwed’Epie, The Lady With A Beard. Yaoundé: Editions CLE, 2005. Review published in The Post 0707 (Monday 10 October 2005):8. 21. John Nkemngong Nkengasong, The Widow’s Might. Yaoundé: Editions CLE, 2006. Review published in The...