Your Madness, Not Mine - Stories of Cameroon

The stories in "Your Madness, Not Mine" are about postcolonial Cameroon, but especially about Cameroonian women, who probe their day-to-day experiences of survival and empowerment as they deal with gender oppression: from patriarchal expectations to the malaise of maldevelopment, unemployment, and the attraction of the West for young Cameroonians. Makuchi has given us powerful portraits of the people of postcolonial Africa in the so-called global village who too often go unseen and unheard.

List of contents

The healer -- Your madness, not mine -- Market scene -- The forest will claim you too -- Election fever -- American lottery -- Accidents are a sideshow -- Bayam-sellam -- Slow poison.

About the author

Makuchi is professor of English and Comparative Literature at North Carolina State University, Raleigh. Her publications include a book of short fiction, Your Madness, Not Mine: Stories of Cameroon, and Gender in African Women's Writing: Identity, Sexuality, and Difference.

Summary

Women’s writing in Cameroon has so far been dominated by Francophone writers. The short stories in this collection represent the yearnings and vision of an Anglophone woman, who writes both as a Cameroonian and as a woman whose life has been shaped by the minority status her people occupy within the nation-state.The

Product details

• Authors: Juliana Makuchi Abbenyi-Nfah, Makuchi, Juliana Makuchi Nfah-Abbenyi
• Publisher: Ohio University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.02.1999
• EAN: 9780896802063
• ISBN: 978-0-89680-206-3
• No. of pages: 158
• Dimensions: 215 mm x 140 mm x 15 mm
• Weight: 200 g
• Series: Monographs in International St; Ohio RIS Africa Series; Ohio RIS Africa Series; Research in International Studies, Africa Series; Monographs in International St
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies