Cross-Cultural Affinities

Manyaka Toko Djockoua teaches American literature at the Faculty of Arts, Letters and Social Sciences of the University of Yaoundé I, Cameroon. Her research interests include American literature, literary theory and criticism, comparative literature, cultural studies, and postcolonial studies.

• Origins of American Transcendentalism – Sources of Negritude – Emerson’s and Senghor’s Family and Educational Influences – African Ontology in Emerson’s and Senghor’s Essays – Lectures and Poems – Transcendentalism – Negritude and Literature – Cross-cultural Affinities – Cultural and Literary Ethics