Makuchi
Autore di Your Madness Not Mine: Stories of Cameroon (Ohio RIS Africa Series)
Sull'Autore
Makuchi is a professor of English and Comparative Literature at North Carolina State University, Raleigh.
Opere di Makuchi
Opere correlate
New Daughters of Africa: An International Anthology of Writing by Women of African Descent (1992) — Collaboratore — 88 copie
Etichette
Informazioni generali
- Nome legale
- Nfah-Abbenyi, Juliana Makuchi
- Data di nascita
- 1958
- Sesso
- female
- Nazionalità
- Beba
- Nazione (per mappa)
- Cameroon
- Luogo di nascita
- South-West Province, Cameroon
- Luogo di residenza
- Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Yaoundé, Cameroon - Istruzione
- University of Yaoundé (BA, MA, PhD)
McGill University (PhD) - Attività lavorative
- President, African Literature Association
English professor, North Carolina State University
Literature professor, University of Southern Mississippi - Organizzazioni
- African Literature Association
Utenti
Recensioni
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Autori correlati
Statistiche
- Opere
- 3
- Opere correlate
- 4
- Utenti
- 47
- Popolarità
- #330,643
- Voto
- 4.3
- Recensioni
- 1
- ISBN
- 7
Although there are stories set in a rural village as well as in the city, both contexts are dealing with change. Juliana Makuchi's stories address AIDS, environmental exploitation, migration, domestic abuse and political corruption but the key focus is personal, and as the reader it is impossible to forget the individuals who are at the heart of this collection. Whilst the issues dealt with may make this seem overly serious (and it is tragic too: her description of someone in the last days of AIDS is heartbreaking), it is also humorous; from the observations of the customers at the village's only bar, to the grandma carefully negotiating the benefits of political support in an election year. We switch between pidgen, French and English in the text.
Highly recommended.… (altro)