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Fears, doubts and joys of not belonging /

This book is an opportune warning that alienation, estrangement and intentional diminishment serve as a cancer upon those who disburse it. The outsider suffers by being alone; the insider suffers even more by being forever known as a hypocrite who perpetuates dystopia. It uses literature as a hothou...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Fishkin, Benjamin Hart, Ankumah, Adaku T., Ndi, Bill F.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bamenda, Cameroon : Langaa Research & Publishing CIG, 2014.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover; Title Page; Cppyright Page; The Editors; Table of Contents; Preface; Introduction; Section I: Prose and Verse on the Verge; Chapter 1. Bill F. Ndi's Social Angst and Humanist Vision; Chapter 2. In Moments like These: Emmanuel Fru Doh and the Mirrors of Romanticism; Chapter 3. Warring Estrangement in E. Coxere's Adventures by Sea; Section II: Outside Looking in; Chapter 4. Out of the Circle: United Marginals in Francis B. Nyamnjoh's The Travail of Dieudonné; Chapter 5. F. Scott Fitzgerald and the Pain of Exclusion.
  • Chapter 6. Minority Identity and the Question of Social Failure in John N. Nkengasong's Across the MongoloChapter 7. Changing the Status Quo from the Margins in Bill F. Ndi's Gods in the Ivory Towers; Section III: Strangers at Home and Abroad; Chapter 8. A Costly Gift to the Receiver: Francis B. Nyamnjoh and the Alienation of the African; Chapter 9. Willful and/or Imposed Alienation in Recent African Emigration Narratives; Chapter 10. Blighting Companionship: Emmanuel Fru Doh's The Fire Within, A Tale of Passion and Alienation; INDEX; Back Cover.