Eunice Ngongkum
Biographic Data
| ID | 5156039 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Eunice Ngongkum |
| GIVEN NAMES | Eunice |
| FAMILY NAME | Ngongkum |
| SIGNATURE | NGONGKUM E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Université de Yaoundé I |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5111-3089 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The earth we used to know”
Ferality, according to Anna L. Tsing et al., investigates “the ways living beings as well as non-living beings react to the kinds of infrastructural projects humans come up with” (Field Guide 310–11). As a concept in Anthropocene criticism, it serves to explore the often uneven social and environmental imprints of the latter. Referencing characters, landscapes, or narratives that escape or subvert human control, domestication or rational order, f…
Anglophone Cameroon Poetry in the Environmental Matrix
Contemporary Cameroon poetry in English, nature and the politics of consciousness raising for the future
This article is informed by the centrality of consciousness-raising in ecocritical ideology, which, according to Christine Gerhardt, “has come to hold the many different perspectives and techniques in ecological criticism together”. It seeks to examine a selection of contemporary Cameroon poetry in English to foreground its concerns with the environment and its futures. The paper aims at showing that through familiar, comprehensive and meaningful…
Urban orature and resistance
From their very origins, contemporary African artistic creations have been works of resistance. Born from the struggle against colonialism, these works continued in this trajectory when independence failed to deliver on the aspiration of the masses. Today's artists follow in the footsteps of their predecessors; resisting all forms of social injustice, economic inequality and political oppression that bedevil the post-independence arena. Using res…
A crushing curse’
Moving from the premise that widows have been at the margins of literary discourse in Cameroon, this paper examines widowhood in contemporary Anglophone Cameroon literature using John Nkemngong Nkengasong’s The Widow’s Might (2006) and Alobwed’Epie’s Patching the Broken Dream (2012) as the springboard for its discussion. It argues that the factors that influence the lives of widows, especially, the options available to them and the multiplicity o…
Contemporary Cameroon poetry in English, nature and the politics of consciousness raising for the future
This article is informed by the centrality of consciousness-raising in ecocritical ideology, which, according to Christine Gerhardt, “has come to hold the many different perspectives and techniques in ecological criticism together”. It seeks to examine a selection of contemporary Cameroon poetry in English to foreground its concerns with the environment and its futures. The paper aims at showing that through familiar, comprehensive and meaningful…
A crushing curse’
Moving from the premise that widows have been at the margins of literary discourse in Cameroon, this paper examines widowhood in contemporary Anglophone Cameroon literature using John Nkemngong Nkengasong’s The Widow’s Might (2006) and Alobwed’Epie’s Patching the Broken Dream (2012) as the springboard for its discussion. It argues that the factors that influence the lives of widows, especially, the options available to them and the multiplicity o…
Anglophone Cameroon Poetry in the Environmental Matrix
Contemporary Cameroon poetry in English, nature and the politics of consciousness raising for the future
This article is informed by the centrality of consciousness-raising in ecocritical ideology, which, according to Christine Gerhardt, “has come to hold the many different perspectives and techniques in ecological criticism together”. It seeks to examine a selection of contemporary Cameroon poetry in English to foreground its concerns with the environment and its futures. The paper aims at showing that through familiar, comprehensive and meaningful…
Urban orature and resistance
From their very origins, contemporary African artistic creations have been works of resistance. Born from the struggle against colonialism, these works continued in this trajectory when independence failed to deliver on the aspiration of the masses. Today's artists follow in the footsteps of their predecessors; resisting all forms of social injustice, economic inequality and political oppression that bedevil the post-independence arena. Using res…
The earth we used to know”
Ferality, according to Anna L. Tsing et al., investigates “the ways living beings as well as non-living beings react to the kinds of infrastructural projects humans come up with” (Field Guide 310–11). As a concept in Anthropocene criticism, it serves to explore the often uneven social and environmental imprints of the latter. Referencing characters, landscapes, or narratives that escape or subvert human control, domestication or rational order, f…
Art (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Literature (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Consciousness (2 works) · Ecocriticism and Environmental Literature (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works)