In his novel Mont Plaisant (2011), Patrice Nganang takes a theme he outlined in the virulent pamphlet of 2009 La République de l’imagination, while speaking of a cultural hero who is, first, a mean to access to a section of its own History. In the background, the court of the sultanate established by Njoya in Cameroon between 1885 and 1933 and the first anti-colonial struggles conducted, among others, by the opponent Joseph Ngono. The latter's daughter, Sara, seventy years later, tells a young Cameroonian who is studying in the United States her extraordinary history, and therefore the unrecognized history of the Bamum kingdom and of a cultural hero entering for the first time on the literary scene. Through the weaving of fascinating narratives and documents, this novel offers a reflection on the strength of archives in legitimizing the reconstruction not only of the colonial past, but also of a cultural and historical identity of the anonymous African citizen who is, in fact, the real hero of this story.
Remenber Njoya, ou la force légitimante des archives dans le roman Mont Plaisant (2011) de Patrice Nganang / S. Riva - In: Les héros culturels, récits et représentations / [a cura di] D. Ranaivoson, V. Litvan. - France, Saint-Maur-des-Fossés : Sépia, 2014. - ISBN 9782842802554. - pp. 51-72
Remenber Njoya, ou la force légitimante des archives dans le roman Mont Plaisant (2011) de Patrice Nganang
S. Riva
2014
Abstract
In his novel Mont Plaisant (2011), Patrice Nganang takes a theme he outlined in the virulent pamphlet of 2009 La République de l’imagination, while speaking of a cultural hero who is, first, a mean to access to a section of its own History. In the background, the court of the sultanate established by Njoya in Cameroon between 1885 and 1933 and the first anti-colonial struggles conducted, among others, by the opponent Joseph Ngono. The latter's daughter, Sara, seventy years later, tells a young Cameroonian who is studying in the United States her extraordinary history, and therefore the unrecognized history of the Bamum kingdom and of a cultural hero entering for the first time on the literary scene. Through the weaving of fascinating narratives and documents, this novel offers a reflection on the strength of archives in legitimizing the reconstruction not only of the colonial past, but also of a cultural and historical identity of the anonymous African citizen who is, in fact, the real hero of this story.File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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