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Author Doh, Emmanuel Fru, author.

Title The Obasinjom warrior : the life and works of Bate Besong / Emmanuel Fru Doh.

Publication Info. Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2014.

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Description 1 online resource (1 PDF (xv, 213 pages))
text file
Series UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
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.
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.
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Subject Besong, Bate -- Criticism and interpretation.
Besong, Bate.
Criticism and interpretation.
Besong, Bate.
Authors, African -- Biography.
Authors, African.
Genre/Form Biographies.
Subject African literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
African literature.
Chronological Term 20th century
1900 - 1999
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Biographies.
Added Author Project Muse, distributor.
Project Muse.
Other Form: Print version: 9789956792016
ISBN 9789956792986 electronic book
9956792985 electronic book
9789956792016
9956792012 print
9789956792016 print