Go to AfricaBib home

Go to AfricaBib home AfricaBib Go to database home

bibliographic database
Line
Previous page New search

The free AfricaBib App for Android is available here

Periodical article Periodical article Leiden University catalogue Leiden University catalogue WorldCat catalogue WorldCat
Title:The 'bildungsroman' in Cameroon Anglophone literature: John Nkemngong Nkengasong's 'Across the Mongolo' and Margaret Afuh's 'Born before her time'
Author:Ngongkum, EuniceISNI
Year:2010
Periodical:Research Review (ISSN 0855-4412)
Volume:26
Issue:2
Pages:55-74
Language:English
Notes:biblio. refs.
Geographic terms:Cameroon
West Africa
Subjects:literature
English language
literary criticism
identity
postcolonialism
Bildungsromans
Literature and society
About persons:John Nkemngong Nkengasong (1959-)ISNI
Margaret Afuh
Abstract:This paper investigates the 'bildungsroman' genre in postcolonial Cameroon Anglophone fiction through a textual analysis of John Nkemngong Nkengasong's 'Across the Mongolo' and Margaret Afuh's 'Born before Her Time'. It seeks to show that these two writers have borrowed a foreign genre and successfully manipulated its original template to highlight the problems between the individuals' aims and the socio-cultural, political and economic values of the post colony. It also aims at demonstrating that a close reading of these texts deepens our understanding of the bildungsroman in the Cameroon literary context and its inevitable relationship to questions of identity. Bibliogr., sum. [Journal abstract]