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1 online resource (1 PDF (xv, 213 pages)) |
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text file |
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UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
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Note |
Issued as part of UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 200-205) and index. |
Summary |
On March 8, 2007, one of Cameroonís 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 B. |
Contents |
Cover; Title page; Copyright page; Dedication; Contents; Preface; Introduction; PART I -- BATE BESONG: THE MAN; 1. Childhood and School Years; 2. Bate Besong: His Career; 3. Bate Besong: Distinguishing Himself; 4. Bate Besong and His Family; PART II -- BATE BESONG: HIS WORKS; 5. Poetry; Polyphemus Detainee and Other Skulls (1980); The Grain of Bobe Ngom Jua (1985); Obasinjom Warrior With Poems After Detention (1991); Disgrace: Autobiographical Narcissus and Emanya-nkpe Collected Poems (2007); Just Above Cameroon: Selected Poems 1980 -- 1994 (1998); 6. Drama. |
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The Most Cruel Death of the Talkative Zombie (1986)Beasts of No Nation (1990); Requiem for the Last Kaiser (1991); The Banquet (1994); Change Waka & His Man Sawa Boy (2001); Once Upon Great Lepers (2003); Conclusion; Notes; Works Cited; INDEX; Back cover. |
Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
Subject |
Besong, Bate -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Besong, Bate. |
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Criticism and interpretation. |
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Besong, Bate.
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Authors, African -- Biography.
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Authors, African. |
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Biographies.
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Subject |
African literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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African literature. |
Chronological Term |
20th century |
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1900 - 1999 |
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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Biographies.
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Added Author |
Project Muse, distributor.
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Project Muse.
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Other Form: |
Print version: 9789956792016 |
ISBN |
9789956792986 electronic book |
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9956792985 electronic book |
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9789956792016 |
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9956792012 print |
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9789956792016 print |
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