Landscaping Postcoloniality. The Dissemination of Cameroon Anglophone Literature

The Dissemination of Cameroon Anglophone Literature

• Author(s): Joyce Ashuntantang,
• Publisher: African Books Collective
• Pages: 174
• ISBN_10: 995655829X
  ISBN_13: 9789956558292
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Education / Bilingual Education , Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / General , Language Arts & Disciplines / Publishers & Publishing Industry , Literary Criticism / General , Literary Criticism / African , Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh ,

Description:... This is a foundational text on the production and dissemination of Anglophone Cameroon literature. The Republic of Cameroon is a bilingual country with English and French as the official languages. Ashuntantang shows that the pattern of production and dissemination of Anglophone Cameroon literature is not only framed by the minority status of English and English-speaking Cameroonians within the Republic of Cameroon, but is also a reflection of a postcolonial reality in Africa where mostly African literary texts published by western multi-national corporations are assured wide international accessibility and readership. This book establishes that in spite of these setbacks, Anglophone Cameroon writers have produced a corpus of work that has enriched the genres of prose, poetry and drama, and that these texts deserve a wider readership.