{"product_id":"your-madness-not-mine-stories-of-cameroon-paperback","title":"Your Madness, Not Mine: Stories of Cameroon - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMakuchi\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWomen's writing in Cameroon has so far been dominated by Francophone writers. The short stories in this collection represent the yearnings and vision of an Anglophone woman, who writes both as a Cameroonian and as a woman whose life has been shaped by the minority status her people occupy within the nation-state.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe stories in \u003ci\u003eYour Madness, Not Mine\u003c\/i\u003e are about postcolonial Cameroon, but especially about Cameroonian women, who probe their day-to-day experiences of survival and empowerment as they deal with gender oppression: from patriarchal expectations to the malaise of maldevelopment, unemployment, and the attraction of the West for young Cameroonians.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMakuchi has given us powerful portraits of the people of postcolonial Africa in the so-called global village who too often go unseen and unheard.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMakuchi\u003c\/b\u003e is professor of English andComparative Literature at North Carolina State University, Raleigh. Her publications include a book of short fiction, \u003ci\u003eYour Madness, Not Mine: Stories of Cameroon\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eGender in African Women's Writing: Identity, Sexuality, and Difference\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 158\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.5 x 8.39 x 5.42 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 28, 1999\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47449781469362,"sku":"9780896802063","price":39.51,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/4e011aef5d93d850269a8313682d7780.webp?v=1778772349","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/your-madness-not-mine-stories-of-cameroon-paperback","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}