The Repressed Expressed: Novel Perspectives on African and Black Diasporic Literature

English and literature scholars from the US, Spain, and Africa present 10 essays on African and black diasporic literature exploring repression and its expression in different cultures and regions. They examine Francis Nyamnjoh's The Disillusioned African, Soul's Forgotten, A Nose for Money, and Homeless Waters; the work of Cameroonian playwrights Ba'Bila Mutia, Victor Epie'Ngome, Bate Besong, and Bole Butake; Bill F. Ndi's Gods in the Ivory Tower and his poetry; Zora Neale Hurston's Jonah's Gourd Vine; Thomas Jing's Tale of an African Woman; and Emmanuel Fru Doh's Nomads: The Memoirs of a Southern Cameroonian. Distributed in North America by the African Books Collective. Annotation 2017 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)