Anglophone-Cameroon Literature

Emmanuel Fru Doh, a native of Cameroon, is professor in the Department of English at Century College.

• TABLE OF CONTENTSDEDICATIONPREFACETABLE OF CONTENTSCHAPTER ONE. INTRODUCTION: THE EMERGENCE OF A “NATION”CHAPTER TWO. ORAL LITERATURE IN ANGLOPHONE-CAMEROONCHAPTER THREE. PROSE: THE NOVEL AND THE IMPACT OF COLONIZATIONCHAPTER FOUR. THEATRE, NATIONHOOD, AND THE QUESTION OF INDEPENDENCECHAPTER FIVE. POETRY AND THE REPUBLICCHAPTER SIX. CONCLUSIONWORKS CITEDINDEXABOUT THE AUTHOR

A noted Cameroonian poet, novelist, and memoirist, Doh explains in his preface that he began this book in the early 1990s, when the need for a solid body of criticism on Cameroon literature in English was even greater than it is now. . . .Doh provides commentary on six novels, six plays, and six collections of poetry.