Author

Contributions

  • Ohio University. Center for International Studies. - Contributor

Publication

1999 - Ohio University Center for International Studies, Athens, Ohio

Language

English

Word Count

39,250 words, Guess

Page Count

157 pages

Identifiers

and 2 more
  • LibraryThing822087
  • Goodreads920198

Classifications

  • DDC823
  • LCCPR9372.9.M34 Y68 1999

Description

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.

Subjects

Topics

FictionCameroon literatureSocial life and customsCameroon fiction (English)Fiction, short stories (single author)Cameroon -- Social life and customs -- Fiction.

Places

Series Statement

  • Monographs in international studies.

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