A Name That Is Mine
- In this poetry collection, Mbuh Mbuh Tennu offers a virulent indictment of the multifarious faces of pain which have lent a dystopian colouring to our world. These poems are all at once, songs of lament, regret, defiance and protest. The idea of naming which is a central motif underscores the dangers of being foreign named; which implies being claimed and owned and more importantly the imperative of self-naming to claim a name and to own that name; to self-define and to defy attempts to contravene this. This is a collection for our time; our timelessness. It is an urgent, reflective and incisive call to stay awake and be actors of our history.
Author: | Tennu Mbuh |
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-600992 |
ISBN: | 9956-550-94-9 |
ISBN: | 978-9956-550-94-4 |
Publisher: | Langaa RPCIG |
Place of publication: | Bamenda, Cameroon |
Document Type: | Book |
Language: | English |
Year of Completion: | 2019 |
Year of first Publication: | 2019 |
Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
Release Date: | 2021/04/29 |
Page Number: | 98 |
HeBIS-PPN: | 478270313 |
Sammlungen: | Afrika südlich der Sahara |
Afrika südlich der Sahara / Paket Afrikanistik | |
Licence (German): | FID Afrikastudien |