Nation without narration : history, memory, and identity in post-colonial Cameroon /
This book traces the roots of the current turmoil and sheds light on overlooked factors impacting nation building in post-colonial Cameroon. It demonstrates the urgency of cross-disciplinary work on African societies and the continued relevance of postcolonial criticism as a theoretical framework. I...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Amherst, New York :
Cambria Press,
[2019]
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| Series: | Cambria African studies series.
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| Summary: | This book traces the roots of the current turmoil and sheds light on overlooked factors impacting nation building in post-colonial Cameroon. It demonstrates the urgency of cross-disciplinary work on African societies and the continued relevance of postcolonial criticism as a theoretical framework. It extends the postcolonial critique inaugurated by Homi Bhabha's Nation and Narration into twenty-first-century sub-Saharan Africa. It also reframes the question of modernity and development in this context, suggesting an approach with bearing on people's lived experience. This study draws from a diversity of fields-political science, literature, history, cultural studies and postcolonial studies-to demonstrate the limitations of a philosophy of nation building that turned into state consolidation. It is a timely study on Cameroon's currently volatile situation that is applicable to other postcolonial contexts, in Africa and elsewhere. |
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| Physical Description: | 261 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [235]-251) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781604979664 1604979666 |