| Description |
1 online resource (1 PDF (xv, 213 pages)) |
| Contents |
Cover; Title page; Copyright page; Dedication; Contents; Preface; Introduction; PART I -- BATE BESONG: THE MAN; 1. Childhood and School Years; 2. Bate Besong: His Career; 3. Bate Besong: Distinguishing Himself; 4. Bate Besong and His Family; PART II -- BATE BESONG: HIS WORKS; 5. Poetry; Polyphemus Detainee and Other Skulls (1980); The Grain of Bobe Ngom Jua (1985); Obasinjom Warrior With Poems After Detention (1991); Disgrace: Autobiographical Narcissus and Emanya-nkpe Collected Poems (2007); Just Above Cameroon: Selected Poems 1980 -- 1994 (1998); 6. Drama |
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The Most Cruel Death of the Talkative Zombie (1986)Beasts of No Nation (1990); Requiem for the Last Kaiser (1991); The Banquet (1994); Change Waka & His Man Sawa Boy (2001); Once Upon Great Lepers (2003); Conclusion; Notes; Works Cited; INDEX; Back cover |
| Summary |
On March 8, 2007, one of CameroonÃs foremost scholars died in a ghastly traffic accident barely hours after launching his most forthright and acerbic collection of poems: Disgrace: Autobiographical Narcissus. Dr. Bate Besong was a social activist, a critic, troubadour, and playwright; an avant-garde, steeped in the tradition of the absurd, who fought against the corrupt system of governance that transmuted Cameroonians into a comatose and apathetic citizenry neutered by fear engendered by the workings of an existing Gestapo. For the first time, Emmanuel Fru Doh has gone beyond an analysis of B |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 200-205) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Besong, Bate -- Criticism and interpretation
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Besong, Bate
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Besong, Bate fast |
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Authors, African -- Biography
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African literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Composition & Creative Writing.
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Rhetoric.
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REFERENCE -- Writing Skills.
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African literature
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Authors, African
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Biographies
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Biographies.
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Biographies.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9789956792986 |
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9956792985 |
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9956792012 |
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9789956792016 |
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