Emerging Perspectives on Alobwed’Epie

Edited By: Sarah Anyang Agbor, Manyaka Toko Djockoua, Stephen Ambe Mforteh

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This collection explores the problem of the preservation of cultural identities in the present-day global context. It highlights that gender equality, ethnicity, religion, tradition, modernity and linguistic affinities are recurrent in many contemporary national literatures.

This collection of essays poses the problem of the preservation of cultural identities in the present-day global context. The comparative approach of this cultural study…

This collection of essays poses the problem of the preservation of cultural identities in the present-day global context. The comparative approach of this cultural study shows the universal dimension of the issues raised in the book, highlighting that gender equality, women’s emancipation, ethnicity, religion, tradition, oppression, resistance, modernity and linguistic affinities are recurrent in many contemporary national literatures.

Sarah Anyang Agbor is Professor of African and Commonwealth Literatures in the Department of English at the Faculty of Arts, Letters, and Social Sciences of the University of Yaoundé I, Cameroon. Her research interests include African literature, literary theory and criticism, comparative literature, cultural studies and postcolonial studies. Her articles have appeared in various publications in Nigeria, Cameroon, Britain and the USA. She has published Critical Perspectives on Commonwealth Literature and An Introduction to Commonwealth Literature, and co-edited Migration, Cultures and Transnational Identities.

Manyaka Toko Djockoua is Professor of American Literature in the Department of English at the Faculty of Arts, Letters, and Social Sciences of the University of Yaoundé I, Cameroon. Her research work focuses on literary theory and criticism, comparative literature, cultural studies, and postcolonial studies. She has published numerous articles in both national and international journals, and she is the author of Cross-cultural Affinities: Emersonian Transcendentalism and Senghorian Negritude and Culture, History and Comparative Literature: John Steinbeck and René Philombe.

Stephen Ambe Mforteh is Professor of Linguistics in the Department of English at the Faculty of Arts, Letters, and Social Sciences of the University of Yaoundé I, Cameroon. His main area of specialization is sociolinguistics. His articles have been published in both national and international journals. He has co-edited English for French Speaking Africa: Book 2 and Postcolonial Linguistic Voices: Identity Choices and Representations.