Evembe's Sur la terre en passant and the Poetics of Shame
In Sur ta terre en passant , Evembe fashions a poetics of shame from the ordinary experiences of life in a large African city (Yaounde). He does it in such a way that the hallucinatory qualities and scabrous details of one individual's state of consciousness mirror the malaise which characteri...
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New Prairie Press
1980-01-01
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| Series: | Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature |
| Online Access: | http://newprairiepress.org/sttcl/vol4/iss2/5 |