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

264 Pages·2017·2.815 MB·English

by  Bill F. Ndi, Adaku T. Ankuma, Benjamin Hart Fishkin

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

Edited by

Bill F. Ndi
Adaku T. Ankuma
Benjamin Hart Fishkin

Langaa Research & Publishing CIG
Mankon, Bamenda
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P.O. Box 902 Mankon
Bamenda
North West Region
Cameroon
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ISBN-10: 9956-764-62-0
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© Bill F. Ndi, Adaku T. Ankuma, Benjamin Hart Fishkin 2017

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Dedication

To all British Southern Cameroonians killed and or maimed on their
territory as they express their resistance to oppression from La
République du Cameroun. No drop of your blood will go in vain.
Bill F. Ndi

To all who are being persecuted in various parts of the world for
daring to stand up for what they believe.
Adaku T. Ankumah

To the loving memory of Stanley Hochman; the best, kindest and
most compassionate uncle, mentor and teacher a person can hope to
find.
Benjamin Hart Fishkin

The Editors

Bill F. Ndi, Associate Professor of English and Foreign Languages
at Tuskegee University, Tuskegee, Alabama, USA, earned his
Doctorate from the University of Cergy-Pontoise in 2001. He is a
poet, playwright, storyteller, literary critic, translator, historian of
ideas and mentalities as well as an academic who has held teaching
positions in several universities in Australia, France and elsewhere.
His areas of teaching and research comprise among others English
Languages and literatures, French, Professional, Technical and
Creative Writing, World Literatures, Applied/Historical Linguistics,
Literary History, Media and Communication Studies, Peace/Quaker
Studies and Conflict Resolution, History of Internationalism, History
of Ideas and Mentalities, Translation & Translatology, 17th Century
and Contemporary Cultural Studies. He has published extensively in
these areas. His publications include numerous scholarly works on
Early Quakerism and translation of Early Quaker writings. He has
also published poetry and plays in both the French and the English
languages. Professor Bill F. Ndi has 18 published volumes of poetry
of which 5 are in French, a play and 4 works in translation. He is co-
editor of Outward Evil, Inward Battle: Human Memory in Literature with
Adaku T. Ankumah, Benjamin Hart Fishkin, and Festus Fru Ndeh as
well as co-editor of Fears, Doubts, and Joys of not Belonging with Adaku
T. Ankumah and Benjamin Hart Fishkin. His most recent edited
work is Secret, Silences, and Betrayals. Also, he has served as a National
Endowment for the Humanities’ scholar.

Adaku T. Ankumah, Interim Chair and Professor of English at
Tuskegee University, received her PhD in Comparative Literature
from the University of Wisconsin-Madison with a minor in drama.
Her dissertation and initial research interests focused on
revolutionary playwrights from the African Diaspora, such as
Kenyan Ngugi wa Thiong'o, Martiniquais writer Aimé Césaire, and
African American Amiri Baraka, who use their creative efforts to
work for the destruction of what they consider to be the
colonial/capitalist foundation of post-colonial Africa. Ngugi’s play
The Trial of Dedan Kimathi, a play that examines the arrest and trial of
one of the famous leaders of the Mau Mau revolt against the British
in Kenya in the 1950’s, has been the subject of her published
research. She has also done research on the role of women in
revolutionary theatre, voicelessness of African women, and gender
and politics in the works of African women authors like Mariama Bâ,
Ama Ata Aidoo and Tsitsi Dangarembga.

Professor Ankumah’s recent research interest includes the writings
of women in the African diaspora. This includes research on memory
in literature and its role in helping those dealing with painful,
fragmented pasts forge a wholesome future in Edwidge Danticat’s
The Dew Breaker. She has also examined memory and resistance in the
poetry of South African performer and writer Gcina Mhlophe. She
recently edited Nomenclatural Poetization and Globalization. Also, she co-
edited, with Bill F. Ndi, Benjamin Hart Fishkin and Festus Fru Ndeh,
Outward Evil Inward Battle: Human Memory in Literature, and with Bill F
Ndi and Benjamin Hart Fiskin: Fears, Doubts, and Joys of not Belonging.

Benjamin Hart Fishkin, Associate Professor of English at
Tuskegee University specializes in teaching Nineteenth Century
British Literature. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Alabama
where he served as a Junior Fellow in The Blount Undergraduate
Initiative. In his research, he has emphasized Nineteenth Century
British Literature through each phase of his education. Prior to
earning his Doctorate from the University of Alabama in May of
2009, he obtained a BA in English and Film from the University of
Michigan, Ann Arbor, and an MA from Miami University, Oxford,
Ohio where he examined the interest of Charles Dickens in the
theatre and how the stage influenced his novel writing. He has
published The Undependable Bonds of Blood: The Unanticipated Problems of
Parenthood in the Novels of Henry James. He co-edited Outward Evil Inward
Battle: Human Memory in Literature with Adaku T. Ankumah, Bill F.
Ndi, and Festus Fru Ndeh, and Fears, Doubts and Joys of not Belonging
with Adaku T. Ankumah and Bill F. Ndi. His recent research interests
include, besides his growing interest in Anglophone Cameroon
literature, the problems of marriage and the American family, and the
relationship between the Blues and the single-parent home in the
works of William Faulkner, August Wilson, and F. Scott Fitzgerald.
Authors

Adaku T. Ankumah is Professor of English at Tuskegee University
and chairs the Department of Modern Languages, Communication
and Philosophy. She holds a Ph.D. from the University of
Wisconsin-Madison. Her areas of interest include women’s literature
(with a focus on African and Diaspora women) and the short story
genre.

Antonio J. Jimenez-Munoz is lecturer at the University of Oviedo,
Spain. His research takes on the influence of Romantic literature and
culture upon the present. His main line of research deals with the
influence of Romantic legacies in modern poetry and art and
particularly the material continuity of Romantic modes of expression
in contemporary art-forms. His fields of interest are Literary
Criticism, Theory, and World Poetry. Before his current position, he
was a Teaching Fellow at the universities of Kent at Canterbury-UK
(2001-2004) and Hull-UK (2004-2006), after graduating in English
Studies at the University of Cordoba (Spain) in 2001.

Benjamin Hart Fishkin is an Associate Professor of English at
Tuskegee University, where he specializes in teaching Nineteenth
Century British Literature. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of
Alabama where he served as a Junior Fellow in The Blount
Undergraduate Initiative.

Bill F. Ndi, teaches at Tuskegee University. He has numerous
scholarly publications on Early Quakerism and translation of Early
Quaker writings. He has also published extensively in both the
French and the English languages. These publications include
scholarly articles and book chapters, poetry, and plays. Professor Bill
F. Ndi has 18 volumes of poetry of which 5 are in French, a play and
4 works in translation.

Emmanuel Fru Doh holds a Ph.D. from the University of Ibadan
and has taught in colleges and universities in Cameroon and the
United States since 1990. Poet, novelist, social and literary critic, his
research interests, with a remarkable interdisciplinary approach,
include Africa’s literatures, cultures, and politics; the African
diaspora; and colonial and postcolonial literatures. Besides fictional
and poetic works, Doh has published numerous substantial scholarly
works, including Africa’s political Wasteland: The Bastardization of
Cameroon, and Stereotyping Africa: Surprising Answers to Surprising
Questions, Anglophone-Cameroon Literature: An Introduction, The Obasinjom
Warrior: The Life and Works of Bate Besong. Also worthy of mention is
a significant book chapter in Fears, Doubts, and Joys of not Belonging: “Bill
F. Ndi’s Social Angst and Humanist Vision: Politics Alienation and
the Quest for Freedom in K’cracy, Trees in the Storm and Other Poems”.
He is currently teaching in the Department of English at Century
College in Minnesota.

Rhonda Collier is an Associate Professor of English at Tuskegee
University, where she also serves as the Interim Director of the TU
Global Office. She is a Fulbright Scholar, who studied at the
Universidad de São Paulo in Brazil. She received her Ph.D. in
Comparative Literature from Vanderbilt University in Nashville, TN.
She also holds a B.S. and a Master’s degree in Industrial Engineering
from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville and Georgia Tech
respectively. She has published in the areas of Afro-Brazilian, Afro-
Cuban, African-American, and global hip hop studies. At Tuskegee,
she focuses on American literature and composition courses with an
emphasis on service-learning. Her work “Mothering Cuba: The
Poetics of Afro-Cuban Women” appears in Another Black Like Me:
The Construction of Identities and Solidarity in the African Diaspora
(Cambridge Scholar Press, 2015). Her upcoming work will focus on
Afro-German hip hop. She discusses art as a space of forgiveness and
reconciliation. She is passionate about education abroad and cross-
cultural student engagement.

Richard Evans is assistant professor of English at Tuskegee
University in Tuskegee, Alabama. Educated in classics at the
University of South Carolina, the American School of Classical
Studies at Athens and Columbia University, Dr. Evans holds a Ph.D.
in comparative literature with research interests in ancient and
medieval literatures, theories of translation and linguistic relativity.
He has published numerous academic book reviews, essays
promoting the study of Classical Greek in schools, and articles
on Greek and Roman authors in the Dictionary of Literary

Biography and articles on various topics in classical literature.

Yosimbom Hassan Mbiydzenyuy holds a PhD in Literature from
the University of Yaoundé 1 Cameroon. Currently, he teaches in the
Department of English, University of Buea, Cameroon. His PhD
thesis explores “Identity Dynamics in Cameroon Literature”. His
current research interests and projects focus on the links between
Postcolonial and Postmodern theories, and how their interplay
shapes and nurtures multiple-layered identity formation and
performance in postcolonial societies, especially Cameroon. Also, he
is keen on researching Latin American epistemological foundations
such as Transmodernity, Coloniality, Decoloniality, Pluriversality,
etc. and how they could be used to de-/re-construct postcolonial
African societies.