Critical Perspectives on Mongo Beti / / ed. by Stephen H. Arnold.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Lynne Rienner Press Complete Archive eBook-Package Pre-2000
• MitwirkendeR: Arnold, Stephen H.,; Bestman, Martin T.,; Bjornson, Richard,; Brière, Eloïse A.,; Brière, Eloïse,; Cassirer, Thomas,; Cazenave, Odile,; Chemain, Ariette,; Célérier, Patricia-Pia,; Dehon, Claire L.,; Deltel, Danielle,; Djiffack, André,; Domowitz, Susan,; Dramé, Kandioura,; Dunton, Chris,; Ellerman, Evelyn,
• HerausgeberIn: Arnold, Stephen H.,
• Place / Publishing House: Boulder : : Lynne Rienner Publishers, , [2023]; ©1998
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (453 p.)

Mongo Beti is the most prolific and widely read author from Cameroon, and his writings have called world attention to political corruption in his native country. These essays cover the three distinct periods of Beti’s greatest activity as a writer—the first, which ran from 1953 to 1958; the re-emergence that began in 1974; and the third phase, which Arnold traces to Beti’s brief return from exile in 1991. Referring to the writer as a contemporary Voltaire, as his region’s most effective “gadfly” and commentator, Arnold begins the book with a discussion of Beti’s place in politics and literature.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Mongo Beti: Voltaire in the Twentieth Century -- Part One: On Ville cruelle -- 2 Masculine and Feminine: A Reading of Mongo Beti's Ville cruell -- 3 Ville cruelle: Situation oedipienne, mère castrante -- Part Two: On Le pauvre Christ de Bomba -- 4 The Orphan in Cameroon Folklore and Fiction -- 5 Narrative Perspectives in Mongo Beti's Le pauvre Christ de Bomba -- 6 Initiation and Confession: Narrative Strategies in Le pouvre Christ de Bomba -- Part Three: On Mission terminée -- 7 The Bildungsroman in Africa: The Case of Mission terminée -- 8 African Discourse and the Autobiographical Novel: Mongo Beti’s Mission terminée -- 9 An Interpretation: Mongo Beti’s Mission to Kala -- Part Four: On Le Roi miraculé -- 10 Mongo Beti’s Le Roi miraculé and the Quest for Critical Consciousness -- Part Five: On Perpétue -- 11 The Passion of Perpetua: A Generic Approach to Beti’s Perpétue -- 12 Un Message ambigu: Perpétue de Mongo Beti -- 13 Une Lecture de Perpétue de Mongo Beti -- Part Six: On Remember Ruben and La Ruine presque cocasse d'un polichinelle -- 14 Anatomie de Remember Ruben -- 15 The Orphan and the Trickster in Mongo Beti’s Remember Ruben and La Ruine presque cocasse d’un polichinelle -- 16 Remember Ruben: Etude spatio-temporelle -- 17 La Ruine presque cocasse d’un polichinelle: Une Utopie? -- Part Seven: On Les deux mères de Guillaume Ismaël Dzewatama and La Revanche de Guillaume Ismaël Dzewatama -- 18 In a Sphere of Influence: La Revanche de Guillaume Ismaël Dzewatama -- 19 The White Woman in Interracial Couples in Mongo Beti’s Dzewatama Novels -- 20 Narration and Commitment in Mongo Beti’s Dzewatama Novels -- 21 Une Contre-Histoire: Les deux mères de Guillaume Ismaël Dzewatama, futur camionneur -- Part Eight: General Studies on Mongo Beti’s Oeuvre -- 22 Le Missionnaire dans le roman africain -- 23 Mongo Beti’s Priests in Perspective -- 24 Fate in Mongo Beti’s Novels -- 25 Radicalism and Angst in the Early Novels of Mongo Beti -- 26 The Dilemma of Leadership as Tragi-Comedy in the Novels of Mongo Beti -- 27 Résistance à l’acculturation dans l’oeuvre de Mongo Beti -- 28 The New Mongo Beti -- 29 Mongo Beti et la modernité -- 30 Le Mvet dans l’oeuvre de Mongo Beti -- 31 The Use of Mongo Beti -- 32 Enfin Vint Beti: Mongo Beti and Odile Tobner’s Dictionnaire de la Négritude -- 33 Mongo Beti Returns to Cameroon: A Journey into Darkness -- 34 Mongo Beti: The Nobility of a Struggle -- A Bibliography of Work by Mongo Beti, 1953-1993 -- Contributors -- Index -- About the Book