Emmanuel Yewah
Biographic Data
| ID | 1240195 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Emmanuel Yewah |
| GIVEN NAMES | Emmanuel |
| FAMILY NAME | Yewah |
| SIGNATURE | YEWAH E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Albion College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Across the Atlantic: African Immigrants in the United States Diaspora
Undoing and reconstructing African identities: A Cultural Approach
This study analyses selected literary/cultural texts to show the difficulties in dealing with the questions of individual and collective identity. It examines some African texts' attempts to undo both the oral and written (colonial) traditions' conceptions of identity. The former views identity not so much as a fixed and an immutable essence, but as a construct shaped by various elements that are in constant flux and, therefore, always in the pro…
The Nation as a Contested Construct
In his landmark study in Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism, Benedict Anderson opens what has become a continuous debate on the idea of the nation and nationalism by defining the nation as "an imagined political community--and imagined as both inherently limited and sovereign" (15). He explains: "It is imagined because the members of even the smallest nation never know most of their fellow members, meet them…
Court Stories in Selected African Short Narratives
Tliis article attempts to cross-examine African Literature and African costumary, Islamic and inherited colonial laws. It opens a new topic in the study of African literature by showing how legal discourses are inscribed in certain African narratives and how these discourses link the narratives to the overall context of their production. KEY WORDS : African law, literature, traditional courts
Court Stories in Selected African Short Narratives
This article attempts to cross-examine African Literature and African costumary, Islamic and inherited colonial laws. It opens a new topic in the study of African literature by showing how legal discourses are inscribed in certain African narratives and how these discourses link the narratives to the overall context of their production
Ideolgy and the De/Naturalization of Meaning in the Cameroonian Novel
This article shifts the focus of the study of ideology from the question "what is ideology?" to how it is produced and reproduced. It deals with the process by which social subjects/characters, i. e.. the dominant class and the subjugated, participate, through their interactions in the network of relationships, in the production and reproduction of ideologies and meanings once they have become educated, through their experiences and by other soci…
Ideology and the De/Naturalization of Meaning in the Cameroonian Novel
This article shifts the focus of the study of ideology from the question “what is ideology?” to how it is produced and reproduced. It deals with the process by which social subjects/characters, i.e., the dominant class and the subjugated, participate, through their interactions in the network of relationships, in the production and reproduction of ideologies and meanings once they have become educated, through their experiences and by other socia…
The African Quest for Freedom and Identity: Cameroonian Writing and the National Experience
Traditions, Politics, and African Detective Fiction
No abstract
The Nation as a Contested Construct
In his landmark study in Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism, Benedict Anderson opens what has become a continuous debate on the idea of the nation and nationalism by defining the nation as "an imagined political community--and imagined as both inherently limited and sovereign" (15). He explains: "It is imagined because the members of even the smallest nation never know most of their fellow members, meet them…
Traditions, Politics, and African Detective Fiction
No abstract
Ideolgy and the De/Naturalization of Meaning in the Cameroonian Novel
This article shifts the focus of the study of ideology from the question "what is ideology?" to how it is produced and reproduced. It deals with the process by which social subjects/characters, i. e.. the dominant class and the subjugated, participate, through their interactions in the network of relationships, in the production and reproduction of ideologies and meanings once they have become educated, through their experiences and by other soci…
Ideology and the De/Naturalization of Meaning in the Cameroonian Novel
This article shifts the focus of the study of ideology from the question “what is ideology?” to how it is produced and reproduced. It deals with the process by which social subjects/characters, i.e., the dominant class and the subjugated, participate, through their interactions in the network of relationships, in the production and reproduction of ideologies and meanings once they have become educated, through their experiences and by other socia…
The African Quest for Freedom and Identity: Cameroonian Writing and the National Experience
Court Stories in Selected African Short Narratives
Tliis article attempts to cross-examine African Literature and African costumary, Islamic and inherited colonial laws. It opens a new topic in the study of African literature by showing how legal discourses are inscribed in certain African narratives and how these discourses link the narratives to the overall context of their production. KEY WORDS : African law, literature, traditional courts
Court Stories in Selected African Short Narratives
This article attempts to cross-examine African Literature and African costumary, Islamic and inherited colonial laws. It opens a new topic in the study of African literature by showing how legal discourses are inscribed in certain African narratives and how these discourses link the narratives to the overall context of their production
The Nation as a Contested Construct
In his landmark study in Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism, Benedict Anderson opens what has become a continuous debate on the idea of the nation and nationalism by defining the nation as "an imagined political community--and imagined as both inherently limited and sovereign" (15). He explains: "It is imagined because the members of even the smallest nation never know most of their fellow members, meet them…
Undoing and reconstructing African identities: A Cultural Approach
This study analyses selected literary/cultural texts to show the difficulties in dealing with the questions of individual and collective identity. It examines some African texts' attempts to undo both the oral and written (colonial) traditions' conceptions of identity. The former views identity not so much as a fixed and an immutable essence, but as a construct shaped by various elements that are in constant flux and, therefore, always in the pro…
Across the Atlantic: African Immigrants in the United States Diaspora
Political science (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Gender Studies (8 works) · Law (8 works) · History (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · Art (4 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies (4 works)