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Author Ambanasom, S. A.

Title Education of the Deprived : Anglophone Cameroon Literary Drama
Published Oxford : Langaa RPCIG, 2010

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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
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Subject Literature -- History and criticism
LITERARY CRITICISM -- African.
Literature
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9789956578245
995657824X