‘A crushing curse’: Widowhood in contemporary Anglophone Cameroon literature
Moving from the premise that widows have been at the margins of literary discourse in Cameroon, this paper examines widowhood in contemporary Anglophone Cameroon literature using John Nkemngong Nkengasong’s The Widow’s Might (2006) and Alobwed’Epie’s Patching the Broken Dream (2012) as the springbo...
Main Author: | Eunice Ngongkum |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | Afrikaans |
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Tydskrif vir Letterkunde Association
2016-04-01
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Series: | Tydskrif vir Letterkunde |
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Online Access: | https://journals.assaf.org.za/index.php/tvl/article/view/1178 |
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