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Evembe's Sur La Terre En Passant And The Poetics Of Shame, Richard Bjornson Jan 1980

Evembe's Sur La Terre En Passant And The Poetics Of Shame, Richard Bjornson

Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature

In Sur ta terre en passant, Evembe fashions a poetics of shame from the ordinary experiences of life in a large African city (Yaounde). He does it in such a way that the hallucinatory qualities and scabrous details of one individual's state of consciousness mirror the malaise which characterizes the larger social reality. The protagonist Iyoni (whose name means «shame» in the dialect of Evembe's native Kribi) experiences both misery and social respectability in an environment where traditional values have been lost, only to be replaced by artificial, dehumanizing hierarchies and an attitude of materialistic acquisitiveness. Despite the mysterious …


Franco-American Album, 1980 (Scrapbook #7), Franco-American Collection Jan 1980

Franco-American Album, 1980 (Scrapbook #7), Franco-American Collection

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Newspaper clippings with photographs of politics, schools, church, wedding anniversaries, obituaries and social events etc., in Lewiston and Auburn, Maine and Canada from 1980.