Toward the decolonization of the Europhone African novel /
Toward the Decolonization of the Europhone African Novel is a treatise on the problematics of language choice in Europhone African literature. Vakunta's research is rooted in the notion that the postcolonial African fiction writer is at a crossroads of languages, groping for linguistic reorient...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Mankon, Bamenda, North West Region, Cameroon :
Langaa RPCIG,
2023.
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| Summary: | Toward the Decolonization of the Europhone African Novel is a treatise on the problematics of language choice in Europhone African literature. Vakunta's research is rooted in the notion that the postcolonial African fiction writer is at a crossroads of languages, groping for linguistic reorientation. Using the prose of fiction of Patrice Nganang, Ahmadou Kourouma, Mercedes Fouda, Nazi Boni and Gabriel K. Fonkou as corpus, he contends that postcolonial African fiction is an offshoot of a linguistic tinkering process that enables writers to tinker with the language of the ex-colonizer in a deliberate attempt to divest indigenous writing of its hegemonic vestiges. |
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| Physical Description: | x, 215 pages ; 23 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-210) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9789956553754 9956553751 |