Description |
1 online resource (150 pages) |
Contents |
Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Content; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter One. The Socio-Political Background to Anglophone Cameroon Literary Drama; Chapter Two. Victor Epie Ngome -- Irreconcilable Differences; Chapter Three. Bole Butake -- Empowerment of Women and the Masses; Chapter Four. Bate Besong -- The Conscientisation of the Public; Chapter Five. N. John Nkengasong -- Waiting for a Saviour; Conclusion; Works Cited; Notes on the Playwrights; Back Cover |
Summary |
Education of the Deprived is a perceptive socio-artistic examination of the key works of some major writers of Anglophone Cameroon literary drama today. For over two decades now socio-political developments in Cameroon, including the liberalization of the press, have led to an unprecedented proliferation of political, journalistic and imaginative writings. Availing themselves of their new-found freedom of expression, Cameroonians in general are forcefully articulating their views more than even before, and creative writers, in particular, are artistically recording intimate and painful experie |
Notes |
Print version record |
Subject |
Literature -- History and criticism
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- African.
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Literature
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Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Form |
Electronic book
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ISBN |
9789956578245 |
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995657824X |
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