This is a touching play that interrogates certain traditional mores by revisiting the archetypal themes of love, deceit, and regret. It depicts a society in which people do not have the right to express themselves and their emotions. The play is a tragedy that ends with some cleansing of a land ruined by greed and individualism.
In One Night, Toh masterfully weaves a poetic narrative that explores power dynamics and individual action in the face of colonialism. Set against the backdrop of a ruler's twilight years, the story follows Yuh, who grapples with the legacy of his reign over a prosperous nation threatened by foreign forces. As Yuh confronts the potential annihilation of his life's work, he rekindles his artistic spirit, crafting a poetic narrative that reflects the African perspective on colonialism and its consequences. Toh's rich storytelling and evocative language captivate readers, inviting them to delve into a world where power struggles, cultural identity, and human resilience intertwine. One Night is a testament to artistry and a poignant exploration of historical themes that resonate across time.
This is a touching play that interrogates certain traditional mores by revisiting the archetypal themes of love, deceit, and regret. It depicts a society in which people do not have the right to express themselves and their emotions. The play is a tragedy that ends with some cleansing of a land ruined by greed and individualism.
In One Night, Toh masterfully weaves a poetic narrative that explores power dynamics and individual action in the face of colonialism. Set against the backdrop of a ruler's twilight years, the story follows Yuh, who grapples with the legacy of his reign over a prosperous nation threatened by foreign forces. As Yuh confronts the potential annihilation of his life's work, he rekindles his artistic spirit, crafting a poetic narrative that reflects the African perspective on colonialism and its consequences. Toh's rich storytelling and evocative language captivate readers, inviting them to delve into a world where power struggles, cultural identity, and human resilience intertwine. One Night is a testament to artistry and a poignant exploration of historical themes that resonate across time.
The focus of this book is to assess, through language and literary studies in interpretation, the epistemic representation of frontiers in its shifting and fixing categories. The contributing researchers stress on the fact that crisscrossing has taken its toll on communities and disciplines and that hegemonic positions are becoming increasingly redundant and provocative. Frontier discourse is therefore, a socio-political and culturally oriented discourse. Importing it to language and literary studies also shows that literary circles like language are equally shifting and erasing borderlines. The chapters discuss crisscrossing of frontiers both as geography and epistemology. This is in line with the new cultural ontology that opens up new interpretations and shifts from previous ones in the disciplines of Language, Linguistics, Arts and Literature. The book pulls together a wide range of issues based on a plurality of theoretical assumptions. The issues presented are grouped into three broad sections. Section one looks at the creation of the self as a way to dismantle the other. In section two, the focus is on linguistic shifts and the fact that all languages need space in multilingual societies. And section three shows how people travel out of their homelands to seek comfort. Resourceful, insightful and incisive, the book offers depth and breadth in refined scholarship. The contributors are masterly in their handling of borderlines between ideology and iconoclasm, globalisation and nationalism, memory and nation, gender and identity, official and indigenous languages, self /other dialectics, migration and identity. The book is an invaluable asset to researchers and students with a penchant for interdisciplinarity, intertextuality, multiculturalism and globalisation.
This book critically explores global challenges from linguistic and literary standpoints aimed at contributing towards their mitigation. Composed of two parts, contributors to the first section examine issues such as language use in the Anglophone crisis in Cameroon, the Covid-19 pandemic, migration, ethnic conflict, hate speech and language shift. The second part comprises essays that foreground global problems in literary texts. Contributors survey global problems like terrorism, gender inequality, racism and neo-colonialism, which engender horror and fuel violence. Drawn from various literary texts from Cameroon, Africa, Europe and America, contributors propose language and literature responses to global issues. These include using appropriate language and concrete techniques to assist citizens and world leaders convey precise messages for better understanding and nation-building. New communication strategies could also be adopted to keep life going and improve solidarity worldwide. Finally, contributors submit that dialogue could be a panacea through stakeholder collaboration and that negotiation is a productive solution to peace and harmony.
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