Makuchi
Autor/a de Your Madness Not Mine: Stories of Cameroon (Ohio RIS Africa Series)
Sobre l'autor
Makuchi is a professor of English and Comparative Literature at North Carolina State University, Raleigh.
Obres de Makuchi
Obres associades
New Daughters of Africa: An International Anthology of Writing by Women of African Descent (1992) — Col·laborador — 86 exemplars
Etiquetat
Coneixement comú
- Nom oficial
- Nfah-Abbenyi, Juliana Makuchi
- Data de naixement
- 1958
- Gènere
- female
- Nacionalitat
- Beba
- País (per posar en el mapa)
- Cameroon
- Lloc de naixement
- South-West Province, Cameroon
- Llocs de residència
- Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Yaoundé, Cameroon - Educació
- University of Yaoundé (BA, MA, PhD)
McGill University (PhD) - Professions
- President, African Literature Association
English professor, North Carolina State University
Literature professor, University of Southern Mississippi - Organitzacions
- African Literature Association
Membres
Ressenyes
Potser també t'agrada
Autors associats
Estadístiques
- Obres
- 3
- També de
- 4
- Membres
- 47
- Popularitat
- #330,643
- Valoració
- 4.3
- Ressenyes
- 1
- ISBN
- 7
Although there are stories set in a rural village as well as in the city, both contexts are dealing with change. Juliana Makuchi's stories address AIDS, environmental exploitation, migration, domestic abuse and political corruption but the key focus is personal, and as the reader it is impossible to forget the individuals who are at the heart of this collection. Whilst the issues dealt with may make this seem overly serious (and it is tragic too: her description of someone in the last days of AIDS is heartbreaking), it is also humorous; from the observations of the customers at the village's only bar, to the grandma carefully negotiating the benefits of political support in an election year. We switch between pidgen, French and English in the text.
Highly recommended.… (més)