Critical Perspectives on Mongo Beti

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Stephen H. Arnold
Lynne Rienner Publishers, 1998 - 453 pagina's
Mongo Beti is considered one of the most prolific and widely read authors from Cameroon, and his writings have called world attention to political corruption in his native country. These essays cover the three distinct periods of his greatest activites as a writer - 1953-1958, 1974 and 1991.
 

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A Reading of Mongo Betis Ville cruelle
7
Situation oedipienne mère castrante
15
The Orphan in Cameroon Folklore and Fiction
41
Narrative Perspectives in Mongo Betis Le pauvre Christ de Bomba
49
The Case of Mission terminée
71
Mongo Betis Mission to Kala
95
Mongo Betis Le Roi miraculé and the Quest
109
A Generic Approach to Betis Perpétue
125
Le Missionnaire dans le roman africain
275
Mongo Betis Priests in Perspective
289
Fate in Mongo Betis Novels
305
Radicalism and Angst in the Early Novels of Mongo Beti
315
The Dilemma of Leadership as TragiComedy
327
Résistance à lacculturation dans lœuvre de Mongo Beti
337
The New Mongo Beti
355
Mongo Beti et la modernité
367

Perpétue de Mongo Beti
137
Une Lecture de Perpétue de Mongo Beti
151
Anatomie de Remember Ruben
167
The Orphan and the Trickster in Mongo Betis Remember Ruben
175
Etude spatiotemporelle
191
Une Utopie?
207
La Revanche
231
Narration and Commitment in Mongo Betis Dzewatama Novels
251
Les deux mères de Guillaume
261
Le Mvet dans lœuvre de Mongo Beti
377
The Use of Mongo Beti
393
Mongo Beti and Odile Tobners
405
A Journey into Darkness
413
The Nobility of a Struggle
421
Contributors
445
About the Book 453
Copyright

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