TY  - BOOK
A1  - Doh, Fru
T1  - The Obasinjom Warrior : The Life and Works of Bate Besong
N2  - On March 8, 2007, one of Cameroon's foremost scholars died in a ghastly traffic accident barely hours after launching his most forthright and acerbic collection of poems: Disgrace: Autobiographical Narcissus. Dr. Bate Besong was a social activist, a critic, troubadour, and playwright; an avant-garde, steeped in the tradition of the absurd, who fought against the corrupt system of governance that transmuted Cameroonians into a comatose and apathetic citizenry neutered by fear engendered by the workings of an existing Gestapo. For the first time, Emmanuel Fru Doh has gone beyond an analysis of Besong's plays into giving an in-depth appraisal of his poems which have, for a long time, held back critics because of their opacity. Doh examines each of Besong's plays and collections of poems in separate sections and succeeds in setting Besong's work in perspective - mindful of their concerns and
Y1  - 2014
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/60579
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-605791
SN  - 9956-792-98-5
SN  - 978-9956-792-98-6
PB  - Mkuki na Nyota Publishers
CY  - Daressalam (TZ)
ER  -