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- Title
A crushing curse': Widowhood in contemporary Anglophone Cameroon literature.
- Authors
Ngongkum, Eunice
- Abstract
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.
- Subjects
CAMEROONIAN literature (English); LITERARY discourse analysis; WIDOWHOOD; SOCIAL stigma; SEX discrimination in literature
- Publication
Tydskrif vir Letterkunde, 2016, Vol 53, Issue 1, p138
- ISSN
0041-476X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.4314/tvl.v53i1.9