Towards a poetics of decolonization: Mongo Beti's The Poor Christ of Bomba.
The Poor Christ of Bomba (1956), Mongo Beti's major novel, depicts the effects of French colonial infringement on the Cameroon landscape and consciousness. The novel charts the story of Father Superior Drumont, a Catholic priest assigned to the rainforest region of Cameroon around the 1930s. His pro...
| Publicado en: | Tydskrif vir Letterkunde Vol. 53; no. 1; pp. 179 - 193 |
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