The amputated memory : a song-novel
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PQ3989.2 .L54 M4513 2007
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445 pages ; 23 cm.
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English
UPC
99818867875

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Includes bibliographical references.
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Winner of UNESCO's Noma Award for publishing in Africa, this breakthrough novel draws on Liking's personal experience coming-of-age in Cameroon, West Africa, in the late 1950s, caught between tradition and modernity, family and the nationalist independence movement. Growing up in an extended tribal community, Halla is close with her powerful father, and she follows him when he leaves, even though he rapes her, and she gives birth to his baby. Later, supported by her strong grandmother, she breaks free, attends a missionary school, reads about the collaboration made by Cameroon rulers, including her own father, joins the anticolonialist resistance movement, and finds independence as a writer.
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Translated from the French.
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SACFinal081324

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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

Werewere Liking., & De Jager, M. (2007). The amputated memory: a song-novel . Feminist Press at the City University of New York.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Werewere Liking, 1950- and Marjolijn. De Jager. 2007. The Amputated Memory: A Song-novel. Feminist Press at the City University of New York.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Werewere Liking, 1950- and Marjolijn. De Jager. The Amputated Memory: A Song-novel Feminist Press at the City University of New York, 2007.

MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)

Werewere Liking, and Marjolijn De Jager. The Amputated Memory: A Song-novel Feminist Press at the City University of New York, 2007.

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