GLOBALISATION AND TRANSITIONAL IDEOLOGIES: Moving the Margins through Language and Literature

by Ernest VEYU (Editor), Stephen A. MFORTEH (Editor)

Overview

The papers in this volume define the departure from the margin to the centre, assess emerging literatures and shifting language concerns, dismantle the hegemony of colonial English, propose alternatives to the 'imperialism' that underlies globalisation, and question hegemonic assumptions in language and literature.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781668597835
Publisher:	Barnes & Noble Press
Publication date:	11/22/2021
Pages:	578
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.25(d)

About the Author

Ernest L. VEYU is the holder of a PhD from the University of Yaoundé 1, Cameroon. He specializes in, and teaches British Literature, alongside Postcolonial Studies as a minor, in the same university. He has published a good number of articles in national and international journals in these domains and is actively involved in research in his institution and beyond. He is the author of Virginia Woolf’s Artists in To the Lighthouse, The Making of the Modern Artist: Stephen Dedalus and Will Brangwen, Faultlines in Postcoloniality: Contemporary Readings and five collections of poems.

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Stephen AMBE MFORTEH is a professor, whose major area of research is sociolinguistics. He has published extensively in this domain nationally and internationally. He is the current Chair of the Department of English, Faculty of Arts and Social sciences of the University of Yaounde 1. Since March 2018, he equally heads the Social Sciences Institute (The National Centre for Education) in the Ministry of Scientific Research and Innovation (MINRESI). Heading the Social Sciences Institute has given him a new impetus to collaborate with a cohort of researchers (sociologists, anthropologists, historians, philosophers among others) to project the social sciences as major domain in Cameroon’s efforts to attain emergence.