A crushing curse’
Widowhood in contemporary Anglophone Cameroon literature
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10836152 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Eunice Ngongkum (0000-0001-5111-3089, Université de Yaoundé I, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 53 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 138 |
| Publication date | 2016-04-11 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Tydskrif vir letterkunde (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0041-476X • E-ISSN: 2309-9070 |
| Publisher | Academy of Science of South Africa (PUBLISHER • ZA) |
| DOI | 10.4314/tvl.v53i1.9 |
| OpenAlex | W2336785207 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 3 |
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 of interests touching on their behavior are grounded in socio-cultural parameters that shape communal consciousness. The paper equally aims at showing how these widows attempt to or actually construct new worlds for themselves by resisting such dominant cultural scripts. The paper locates its discourse within the framework of womanist ideology as propounded by Chikwenye Okonjo Ogunyemi and Mary Modupe Kalawole
Aesthetics · Art · Consciousness · Construct (python library · Curse · Dream · Epistemology · Ideology · Political science · Premise · Sociology · Aging, Elder Care, and Social Issues · Anthropology · Gender and Women's Rights · Gender Studies · Law · Multiculturalism, Politics, Migration, Gender · Philosophy · Psychology
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| Unique citing works | 5 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,71 |
| Citation span | 2019 - 2025 (7) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |