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Yearning for (Dis)Connections
Fictions and Frictions of Coexistence in Postcolonial Cameroon
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Yearning for (Dis)Connections
Fictions and Frictions of Coexistence in Postcolonial Cameroon
About this book
In a nuanced consideration of the Cameroonian experience, Yearning for
(Dis) Connections makes critical interventions into debates about
coexistence, citizenship, identity formation and performance, democracy
and modernity in Cameroon. The essays in the book ranges across
Francophone and Anglophone Cameroons to provide a challenging assessment
of the common ways of writing and thinking for and of and about the
Cameroonian world. The book criticises the blinders of Cameroon's
Francophonecentred leadership, analysing its failure to heed Anglophone
Cameroon's ontological and epistemological critiques of Cameroon's
ongoing exclusions masked by pretences of a Francophone universalism.
Yosimbom uses the works of Nyamnjoh, Ndi, Besong and Takwi to explore
how Cameroonian worlds are on the move of and for identity negotiations.
He also explores how the uneven development of those Cameroonian worlds
has been creating growing gaps within and among regions while at the
same time Francophonising Anglophones and Anglophonising Francophones
through four-fold processes of complementarities, continuity and
discontinuity, diachrony and synchrony. The book demonstrates that
persistent Francophone hegemony and resurgent Anglophone nationalism
often fail to realise that all Cameroonians have been shuffled like a
pack of cards; that cultures are formed through complex dialogues and
interactions with other cultures; that the boundaries of cultures are
fluid, porous and contested; that identities are multiple and layered in
complex, pluralist democratic societies; and that there is need for
public recognition of cultural and identity specificities in ways that
do not deny their fluidity, nimbleness and incompleteness.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title page
- Copyright page
- About the Author
- Dedication
- Acknowledgement
- Contents
- Introduction - How Cultural Encounters Engender Defining Differences, Discovering Similarities and Forming and Performing Multiple-layered Identities
- Chapter Summaries
- Chapter 1 - Francophone and Anglophone Cultures in Multilogue in Mathew Takwi’s Messing Manners
- Chapter 2 - Language Blending and Language Mixing in Francis B. Nyamnjoh’s Oeuvre
- Chapter 3 - Unmasking Francophone Cameroon’s Epistemicide in Bate Besong’s Disgrace
- Chapter 4 - (De)Constructing Hegemonic Integration and Francophonecentric Governance in Bill F. Ndi’s Poetry
- Chapter 5 - Africanising and Globalising Chinua Achebe’s Igbo (Narrative) Proverbs
- Chapter 6 - Deuniversalizing Francophone Pedigrees and Pluriversalizing Anglophone Contagions in Bill F. Ndi’s Poetry
- Chapter 7 - Mapping Postcolonial Paratextuality in Francis B. Nyamnjoh’s Mind Searching
- References
- Back cover