Nation without narration
Subtitle: history, memory, and identity in post-colonial Cameroon
By: Ramon A Fonkoué
Series: Cambria African studies series; Cambria African studies series
Publisher: Cambria Press
Published: 2019
Place of publication: Amherst, New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 261
ISBN-13: 9781604979664; 9781621964827
Subjects: Nation-building; Decolonization; History; Social conditions
Description: "This book traces the roots of the current turmoil and sheds light on overlooked factors impacting nation building in post-colonial Cameroon. It demonstrates the urgency of cross-disciplinary work on African societies and the continued relevance of postcolonial criticism as a theoretical framework. It extends the postcolonial critique inaugurated by Homi Bhabha's Nation and Narration into twenty-first-century sub-Saharan Africa. It also reframes the question of modernity and development in this context, suggesting an approach with bearing on people's lived experience. This study draws from a diversity of fields-political science, literature, history, cultural studies, and postcolonial studies-to demonstrate the limitations of a philosophy of nation building that turned into state consolidation. It is a timely study on Cameroon's currently volatile situation that is applicable to other postcolonial contexts, in Africa and elsewhere"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.