Makombo Bambote and the Search for a New Discourse
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2594809 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jonathan Ngate (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1986 |
| Volume | 29 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 12 |
| Publication date | 1986-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | African Studies Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-0206 • E-ISSN: 1555-2462 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/524104 |
| OpenAlex | W1967056009 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 6 |
In her remarks on Makombo Bambote's novel in the Dictionnaire des oeuvres litteraires negro-africaines de languefrancaise, des origines a 1978 (1983), and going back to opinions already expressed in her African Literature in French (1976), Dorothy Blair points out that “ Princesse Mandapu reveals a disquieting, hermetic, and at times oneiric action, which advances by fits and starts, on the strength of a jerky, elliptical, half-familiar and half-poetic style. It's up to the reader to fill in the gaps, to find out transitions and to interpret silences” (1983: 468). This essay proposes a possible way of “filling in the gaps” and “interpreting silences” after having made what I, as a Centrafrican reader and also a student of African literatures, have to assume are correct guesses about transitions in Bambote's novel
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| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |