Camfranglais: The Making of a New Language in Cameroonian Literature (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9789956792962)

This study raises awareness to the emergence of a new genre in world literature-hybridized literature. It rejects the assumption according to which literatures written in less commonly taught languages should be subsumed into one universally accessible global idiom. Instead, Vakunta challenges literary scholars and readers of literature to regard untranslatability as the key to cross-cultural engagement. The book's multiple approaches and innumerable sources generate complex interdisciplinary connections and provide an excellent introduction to a complex literary phenomenon alien to literati resident outside the officially bilingual multicultural and multilingual Republic of Cameroon.

Author: Peter Wuteh Vakunta
ISBN-10: 9956792969
ISBN-13: 9789956792962
Publisher: Langaa RPCID
Language: English
Published: 07/17/2014
Pages: 238
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.67lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.54d